01963cam a2200325 i 4500 944232613 TxGeo 20230817120000.0 230614s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781662503979 trade pbk. 1662503970 trade pbk. (OCoLC)1388206630 TxGeo rda Yardley, Cathy, author. Role playing / Cathy Yardley. Seattle, WA : Montlake, [2023] 322 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Maggie is an unapologetically grumpy forty-eight-year-old hermit. But when her college-aged son makes her a deal—he’ll be more social if she does the same—she can’t refuse. She joins a new online gaming guild led by a friendly healer named Otter. So that nobody gets the wrong idea, she calls herself Bogwitch. Otter is Aiden, a fifty-year-old optimist using the guild as an emotional outlet from his family drama caring for his aging mother while his brother plays house with Aiden’s ex-fiancée. Bogwitch and Otter become fast virtual friends, but there’s a catch. Bogwitch thinks Otter is a college student. Otter assumes Bogwitch is an octogenarian. When they finally meet face to face—after a rocky, shocking start—the unlikely pair of sunshine and stormy personalities grow tentatively closer. But Maggie’s previous relationships have left her bitter, and Aiden’s got a complicated past of his own. Everything’s easier online. Can they make it work in real life? 20230905. Social media Fiction. Video gamers Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Fantasy games Fiction. Middle-aged persons Fiction. Romance fiction. QS5