Close Enough to Touch

A "heart-wrenching and humorous" (Publishers Weekly) love story for anyone who´s ever wanted something--or someone--just out of reach, Colleen Oakley´s Close Enough to Touch will delight fans of Jojo Moyes´s One Plus One and Graeme Simsion´s The Rosie Project. Can you miss something you never had? Jubilee Jenkins is no ordinary librarian. With a rare allergy to human touch, any skin-to-skin contact could literally kill her. But after retreating into solitude for nearly ten years, Jubilee´s decided to brave the world again, despite the risks. Armed with a pair of gloves, long sleeves, and her trusty bicycle, she finally ventures out the front door--and into her future. Eric Keegan has troubles of his own. With his daughter from a failed marriage no longer speaking to him, and his brilliant, if psychologically troubled, adopted son attempting telekinesis, Eric´s struggling to figure out how his life got so off course, and how to be the dad--and man--he wants so desperately to be. So when an encounter over the check-out desk at the local library entangles his life with that of a beautiful--albeit eccentric--woman, he finds himself wanting nothing more than to be near her. A "heart-wrenching and humorous" (Publishers Weekly) love story for anyone who´s ever wanted something--or someone--just out of reach, Colleen Oakley´s Close Enough to Touch will delight fans of Jojo Moyes´s One Plus One and Graeme Simsion´s The Rosie Project.