Needing the Next-Door Neighbor

Title: Needing the Next-Door Neighbor

Series: California Dreamin' #6

Author: Kristin Canary

Publisher: Dreaming of You Press

Genre: RomCom, Contemporary Romance

Source: Kindle Unlimited

My Review:

Happy sigh. I finally finished the California Dreamin' series. Needing the Next-Door Neighbor is the 6th and final book. They are best read in order as each book builds upon the last one. The series follows a group of friends. 

While this is a RomCom, there is so much real life in this story. Kennedy has had to overcome a lot, but still has obstacles in her way...namely a controlling grandmother.

Read for: 

🩺Found family

🩺Dr. Ryan and his care of his nieces

🩺nanny trope

🩺forced proximity

🩺strong friendships

🩺witty banter

🩺age gap

🩺Kennedy's character growth

🩺the epilogue

This is a strong ending to the series. 

★★★★/5

Synopsis (Goodreads): 

My next-door neighbor, Ryan Rosche, is pretty much the perfect guy.

He’s a freaking doctor, for one.

Humble…

Mature (Did I mention he’s eleven years older than me?) …

And flat-out gorgeous.

If only he wasn’t also … my boss.

Look, if I wasn’t the nanny to his nieces, I’d be all. over. that.

But I’m in the middle of a personal crisis of sorts—a recent move, a public breakup, a foiled career—not to mention beholden to a successful CEO grandmother who is withholding my trust fund until I can become “respectable” in a way my mother never was.

Falling for my boss—blurring those lines—is just the sort of thing my mother would have done.

And I refuse to be anything like Pippa Montgomery.

Besides, even if it was respectable to date my boss, a hot mess like me could never hope to land this guy whose life is 100% together.

Someone like him could never want someone like me. Not long term, anyway. And I’m tired of being discarded.

But when I move into Ryan’s house to make my job easier, and ignite the chemistry of late-night reality TV watching, meal sharing, and helping him raise his nieces, how am I supposed to resist the good doctor’s charms?

It seems inevitable. This man is just a heartbreak waiting to happen…

Fans of Jenny Proctor and Emma St. Clair will love this closed-door, age gap, forced proximity, boss/nanny romantic comedy with lots of sizzle and spice, but no on-page explicit content. It follows Kennedy Matkin, Alexis Matkin's younger sister.