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Also by Colleen Oakley:

In Concert, February 2027
Hardcover / e-Book
Jane and Dan at the End of the World, March 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise, March 2024
Trade Paperback / e-Book
The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise, April 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
The Invisible Husband of Frick Island, June 2021
Trade Size / e-Book
Close Enough to Touch, April 2021
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
You Were There Too, January 2020
Trade Size / e-Book
Close Enough to Touch, March 2017
Hardcover / e-Book
Before I Go, January 2015
Hardcover / e-Book

CLOSE ENOUGH TO TOUCH
By: Colleen Oakley

Pocket Books
April 2021
On Sale: March 30, 2021
416 pages
ISBN: 1982160454
EAN: 9781982160456
Kindle: B01NAS0B1J
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
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Women's Fiction

One time a boy kissed me and I almost died...

And so begins the story of Jubilee Jenkins, a 28-year-old woman with a unique and debilitating medical condition - she's allergic to other humans. After a humiliating, near-death experience in high school, Jubilee has become reclusive in her adulthood, living the past nine years in the confines of the Victorian house her unaffectionate mother deeded to her when she ran off with a wealthy businessman. But now, her mother is dead, and without her financial support, Jubilee is forced to leave home and face the world - and the people in it - she's been hiding from.

One of those people is Eric Keegan, a man who just moved into town for work. With a daughter from his failed marriage no longer speaking to him, and a brilliant, if psychologically troubled, adopted son who believes he has untapped telekinetic powers, 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. Then, one day, he meets a mysterious woman named Jubilee...