You, As You Are (Changing Seasons #2)
Emma Sewell
Rated: 3.43 of 5 stars
3.43
· Steam/Spice level: 3 of 5
Open door [?]
· 7 ratings · 472 pages · Published: 27 Mar 2025
Maisie Moss never expected that at twenty-nine, she’d be exchanging her busy London life to move in with her eccentric grandmother, even temporarily. Despite the charm of this quiet seaside town, Maisie’s social life screeches to a halt and she quickly finds herself homesick. But when an intervention thrusts her into joining grandma Vera’s hiking group of quirky retirees, one clumsy misstep lands her falling into the arms of a gruff, rugged local. Being drawn to the mountain man wasn’t in Maisie’s plans, but we can’t help who we fall for, can we?
After a turbulent two years restarting his life, Iain Howell now keeps to himself, preferring the solace of the Welsh hills and the company of his mischievous dog to the world around him. Stuck in a stagnant job with a wounded heart, Iain craves a new adventure but doesn’t know where to start. Falling in love again is certainly off of the cards, yet something about Maisie’s vibrant company might just be the lost key to warming up his locked away heart.
When their elderly friends begin to meddle in their dreary love lives, the polar opposite pair concoct a plan of their own to fake a romance and avoid the nosy ways of Vera and her allies. Though between awkward hikes, glamping mishaps, and unexpected set-ups, how long can ‘pretend’ truly last?
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Content
This story is an open door romance intended for mature readers, containing sexually explicit and adult content. The following themes, in my best effort to be handled with care, are also endometriosis, infertility, loss of consciousness, discussions of parental verbal abuse and neurological disease.
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Tagged as:
- contemporary 3
- funny 3
- curvy heroine 3
- m-f romance 2
- childfree 2
- grumpy & sunshine 2
- forced proximity 2
- friends to lovers 2
- slow burn 2
- fake relationship 2
- found family 2
- small town 2
- cheerful/happy heroine 2
- competent heroine 2
- sweet/gentle heroine 2
- independent heroine 2
- grumpy/cold hero 2
- sweet/gentle hero 2
- tortured hero 2
- angst 1
- older/mature 1
- caretaking 1
- working class hero 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- past child abuse 2
- miscarriage / infertility 1
- geography
- wales 2
- united kingdom 2
- europe 1
- british isles 1
- Format
- dual pov 2
- male pov 2
- third person pov 2
romance tags
The 'Changing Seasons' series
3.70 · 10 ratings
humor · length-long · friends to lovers · contemporary · forced proximity · competent heroine · christmas · cold hero · cheerful heroine · male-pov · independent heroine · europe · wales · caretaking · united-kingdom · working class hero · open-door · curvy heroine · childfree-couple · british-isles
Changing Seasons reading order and complete book list ❯
