Next of Kin (Next #1)
Hannah Bonam-Young
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
3.88
· Steam/Spice level: 3 of 5
Open door [?]
· 143 ratings · 297 pages · Published: 27 May 2022
When people-pleasing Chloe learns that her birth mother has unexpectedly had another baby, she doesn’t hesitate to become a next-of-kin guardian. But when she fails to pass Child Protective Services’ financial evaluation, she is faced with a choice: see her baby sister placed in foster care or participate in CPS’ new initiative, TeamUp.
Enter Warren, a surly mechanic’s apprentice attempting to get custody of his deaf fifteen-year-old brother after failing CPS’ housing evaluation. The two strangers immediately clash but agree to live together until Warren can find housing elsewhere and Chloe can further grow her freelance career.
As their lives intertwine, Chloe and Warren both realise that they’re far more similar than they could have imagined. What started as forced begins to feel natural—and far less lonely. Chemistry soon intensifies beyond what either of them can stand, but they must each decide if what burns between them is worth risking their arrangement.
With banter, heart, and steam that will have the reader blushing, NEXT OF KIN is a true underdog story of two young adults redefining what family can look like.
Content Warnings:
For adult readers only due to explicit (consensual) sexual content, child abandonment (referenced in memory), substance abuse and addiction (referenced, not described), foster care and adoption (theme throughout), references to anxiety (brief description of a panic attack), and death of a parent (referenced in memory).
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Tagged as:
- forced proximity 19
- contemporary 17
- grumpy & sunshine 16
- new adult 15
- enemies to lovers 13
- friends to lovers 11
- single mother 10
- funny 9
- hurt/comfort 8
- grumpy/cold hero 7
- working class hero 7
- bad boys 5
- independent heroine 5
- single father 5
- insta-love 4
- first person pov 4
- competent heroine 4
- found family 4
- m-f romance 3
- disabilities & scars 3
- take-charge heroine 2
- caretaking 2
- height difference 1
- sweet/gentle heroine 1
- tortured hero 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- substance abuse 6
- past child neglect 3
- alcoholism 3
- abuse 2
- past abuse 2
- mental trauma 1
- geography
- north america 1
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The 'Next' series
3.97 · 252 ratings
humor · new adult · first-person-pov · independent heroine · caretaking · mental-trauma · m-f · working class hero · found-family · grumpy sunshine · forced proximity · hurt-comfort · friends to lovers · north-america · height-difference · contemporary · competent heroine · bad boys · past-child-neglect · sweet heroine
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