From Cathy Yardley, author of Love, Comment, Subscribe, comes an emotional rom-com about two middle-aged gamers who grow their online connection into an IRL love story.
Maggie is an unapologetically grumpy forty-eight-year-old hermit. But when her college-aged son makes her a dealhell be more social if she does the sameshe cant 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 Aidens ex-fiancée.
Bogwitch and Otter become fast virtual friends, but theres a catch. Bogwitch thinks Otter is a college student. Otter assumes Bogwitch is an octogenarian.
When they finally meet face to faceafter a rocky, shocking startthe unlikely pair of sunshine and stormy personalities grow tentatively closer. But Maggies previous relationships have left her bitter, and Aidens got a complicated past of his own.
Everythings easier online. Can they make it work in real life?
