


You can read the rest of this review at AudioGals.Double GFY people! Yes! It sounds so fantastical, but it is SO WELL DONE! Riley Hart is an amazing writer and she absolutely manages to pull this off. A decent man, he tells Mads the truth (and he doesn’t cheat, in case anyone is wondering) and even though she is understandably shocked and heartbroken, they agree to divorce. But Ryder has, over the last few years, begun to realise that while he loves Mads dearly, he’s never been IN love with her, that he mistook his feelings of deep friendship for something it wasn’t – and also that he’s not sexually attracted to women. The Lynwood and Hutchinson families have always been close they do business together, the families have taken holidays together, their children pretty much grew up together, and Ryder and Madison have been best friends forever. At a family gathering, Ryder Lynwood and his wife Madison announce their intention to seek a divorce, something which will have lasting effects for their two families as well as for themselves. We meet all the major players in this story in the prologue, which takes place around five years before the story proper. I admit that my track record with this author is somewhat patchy I’ve loved some books and have been ambivalent about others, but I liked the sound of this one (guy falls for his ex wife’s brother) and Tim Paige is a reliably good narrator, so I decided to give Off Limits a try. Given the premise of this, and of the next book in the series ( Pushing the Limits, I infer it will feature romances that are ‘forbidden’ for one reason or another. Off Limits is the first in a new series by Riley Hart – Secrets Kept. Maddy didn’t deserve to get hurt again, and I didn’t need another reason to feel like an outsider in my own family. They weren’t supposed to be the same person.

I like talking to him, the same way I enjoy chatting with GoodWithHisHands. It would have been smart to keep my distance from the man who came out as gay, tearing our close families apart and breaking Maddy’s heart. GoodWithHisHands was the perfect escape from my life, where pressure was always on my shoulders: my father’s expectations, the worry about my sister, Maddy, getting sick again, and her ex-husband, Ryder Lynwood, suddenly back and volunteering at the same hospital as me. We just texted – one night after the other, after the other.

When there was a man in my building on a hookup app, why not message him? This title may be downloaded from Audible via Amazon
