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Close enough to touch : a novel / by Colleen Oakley.

ISBN: 9781501139260
Physical Description: 310 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York : Gallery Books, 2017.
Copyright: &copy;2017.

Summary:

Jubilee Jenkins is a young woman with a rare and debilitating medical condition: she's allergic to other humans. After living as a recluse, Jubilee is forced to leave home and face the world - and the people in it - that she's been hiding from. Eric Keegan is struggling to figure out how his life got so off-course. Then, one day, he meets a mysterious woman named Jubilee, with a unique condition.

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.