Role Playing
Cathy Yardley
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
4.09
· Steam/Spice level: 3 of 5
Open door [?]
· 140 ratings · 333 pages · Published: 01 Jul 2023
Maggie is an unapologetically grumpy forty-eight-year-old hermit. But when her college-aged son makes her a deal—he’ll be more social if she does the same—she can’t refuse. She joins a new online gaming guild led by a friendly healer named Otter. So that nobody gets the wrong idea, she calls herself Bogwitch.
Otter is Aiden, a fifty-year-old optimist using the guild as an emotional outlet from his family drama caring for his aging mother while his brother plays house with Aiden’s ex-fiancée.
Bogwitch and Otter become fast virtual friends, but there’s a catch. Bogwitch thinks Otter is a college student. Otter assumes Bogwitch is an octogenarian.
When they finally meet face-to-face—after a rocky, shocking start—the unlikely pair of sunshine and stormy personalities grow tentatively closer. But Maggie’s previous relationships have left her bitter, and Aiden’s got a complicated past of his own.
Everything’s easier online. Can they make it work in real life?
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Tagged as:
- older/mature 31
- friends to lovers 30
- sweet/gentle hero 29
- contemporary 28
- grumpy & sunshine 26
- grumpy/ice queen 25
- bisexuality 25
- single mother 23
- slow burn 23
- multicultural 22
- small town 22
- funny 20
- nerdy hero 20
- caretaking 20
- dad-bod hero 19
- take-charge heroine 19
- demisexual hero 19
- east asian mc 18
- independent heroine 18
- competent heroine 17
- m-f romance 16
- sassy heroine 12
- hurt/comfort 11
- white collar heroine 9
- plain heroine 5
- height difference 3
- in her 40s/50s 2
- in his 40s/50s 2
- found family 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- queerphobia 20
- third party abuse 11
- geography
- washington state 12
- usa 9
- north america 8
- Format
- audiobook
- dual pov 22
- third person pov 16
- standalone 1
