Close to Home Audiobooks

rachelspangler • October 29, 2019

Hi Friends,

I know I’ve been pushing hard re: the wide release of Fire & Ice , and I’m going to get back to that next week, but today I want to pile on the excitement by announcing that Close to Home is now available in audiobook form!

For those of you who aren’t familiar with Close to Home , here’s the blurb:

Kelly Rolen is a CPA—she’s smart, she’s focused, and she’s worked hard to build an orderly career and a respectable life in her hometown of Darlington, Illinois. Everything is precisely as it should be. Well, it is until her father suffers a debilitating stroke during the busiest time of her year—tax season. Suddenly, Kelly finds herself overworked, exhausted, behind schedule, and forced to hire an intern to meet her deadlines.

Elliot Garza is young and brash, but she’s also a talented accounting student who is charismatic, driven, and solely focused on completing her internship so she can escape from the bleak Midwestern town to Washington, DC and her dream job. She knows she has the professional skills necessary to do the job well, but she is less certain about her ability to handle her beautiful, prickly, demanding, and compelling new boss.

In this fresh new romance from one of the genre’s top young authors, will Kelly’s past and Elliot’s future add up to something greater than the sum of their escalating attraction, or will the answer to their equation end up hitting too close to home?

And if you aren’t sure this book is your cup of tea, here’s a link to the The Lesbian Review’s write up: https://www.thelesbianreview.com/close-home-rachel-spangler/ *Spoiler alert* They liked the book so much they gave it two reviewer-favorite badges along with the designations of “Best of the Best” and “highly recommended.”

If that’s not enough to pique your interest, wait there’s more! The audiobook version is narrated by my super-talented friend Ann Etter, who also read the audiobook version of In Development .

Aside from being an all-around vocal joy, Ann has the perfect voice for this book, as she actually is a Midwestern CPA. I mean, seriously? Could you get a better fit for Close To Home ? I think not!

So to celebrate, I am going to give away a free Audible download code to one lucky winner who shares this blog on social media. Don’t forget to tag me so I have your entry on record. And if you already bought your copy of Close To Home on Audible (thank you!), I will give you a download code for one of my other audiobooks instead!

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