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📖 Close Enough But Not Too Far

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Close Enough But Not Too FarL.R. AdmireEbook"Ridiculously strong. Smart, messy, full of yearning, morally inconvenient, and one of those books that genuinely made me see something differently enough that I don’t think I can fully go back to the version of me who hadn’t read it yet." - Diana, NetGalley reviewer “A smart, witty, and quirky look into the video game industry that blends Golden Retriever romance with heavy ethical drama and deep personal betrayal." - GoodReads reviewer Grace Monroe is very good at getting people to tell her things they absolutely should not be telling her. It’s how she built a decent career as a games journalist, and how she acquired the nickname “Grace the Leaker” (thanks again, Internet). But her Editor-in-Chief wants bigger leaks and harder-hitting exposés, and the methods required to deliver them are getting harder to justify. Then, while covering the cosplay speed dating scene at EverCon, she meets Dylan Rafe Jones. A three-name guy. He’s earnest, funny, a little strange, and willing to take a completely platonic bubble bath with a woman he’s just met. One night becomes all-night texting, cross-country convention weekends, and a situationship neither of them is equipped to define. Dylan has fallen hard before. After years of mistaking limerence for love, he no longer trusts intensity as proof of anything. Grace, meanwhile, keeps her life in neat, separate compartments, including the one where she’s investigating ThunderCross Studios, the company that just anointed Dylan its latest rising star. The allegations against ThunderCross are the familiar kind: sexism, misconduct, a company that protects itself at the expense of the people inside it. Grace needs only one smoking gun. When she finds it on Dylan’s laptop, she has to decide how far she’s willing to go for the story, and what that says about the kind of journalist — and person —she is. Walking away means abandoning a story that deserves to be told. Publishing it could make her the journalist she always thought she wanted to be.