Close Enough to Touch - Colleen Oakley

Colleen Oakley

Category: Romance

Narrator: Kirby Heyborne

Tags: Romance

One time a boy kissed me and I almost died, And so begins the story of Jubilee Jenkins, a young woman with a rare and debilitating medical condition: shes allergic to other humans. After a humiliating near-death experience in high school, Jubilee has become a recluse, living the past nine years in the confines of the small town New Jersey house her unaffectionate mother left to her when she ran off with a Long Island businessman. But now, her mother is dead, and without her financial support, Jubilee is forced to leave home and face the worldand the people in itthat shes 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 who is no longer speaking to him, and a brilliant, if psychologically troubled, adopted son, Erics struggling to figure out how his life got so off-course, and how to be the dadand manhe wants so desperately to be. Then, one day, he meets a mysterious woman named Jubilee, with a uniqu