Role Playing
Cathy Yardley
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
4.09
· Steam/Spice level: 3 of 5
Open door [?]
· 79 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?
Tagged as:
- friends to lovers 20
- contemporary 18
- older/mature 17
- sweet/gentle hero 17
- grumpy & sunshine 16
- grumpy/ice queen 15
- multicultural 14
- bisexuality 13
- slow burn 13
- single mother 12
- caretaking 12
- funny 11
- east asian mc 11
- nerdy hero 11
- dual pov 11
- small town 11
- take-charge heroine 11
- independent heroine 10
- dad-bod hero 10
- competent heroine 9
- third person pov 8
- demisexual hero 7
- sassy heroine 6
- hurt/comfort 5
- m-f romance 4
- white collar heroine 3
- plain heroine 2
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- content warnings
- queerphobia 11
- third party abuse 4
- geography
- washington state 5
- usa 2
- north america 1