Evan Miller thinks his neighbor must be a curmudgeon, an old grumpy man. They bump around at odd hours of the night, never seem to leave their apartment, and never has company.

What Evan isn't expecting is the definitely grumpy, but wildly sexy Ruth Kabbah. He also isn't expecting to hear that Ruth is the town pariah for some sort of long ago incident involving Evan's boss, the local rich boy and a total asshole.

For Ruth, growing up as a black woman with Autism Spectrum Disorder in a teeny, tiny English town, has not been easy, especially since "the incident." Embracing her outcast status, Ruth keeps to herself, drawing her web-comic, wearing her beloved pajamas, and trying, for her beloved sister, to be happy.

Ruth doesn't understand and is leery of Evan's kindness and her absolute attraction to the massive, bear size hunk. Doesn't he understand he's supposed to hate her?

As Evan and Ruth size each other up, Ruth will come to find out she is worth all of Evan's efforts.

I heard about this author from Twitter, and recently bought a cheap-o subscription to Kindle Unlimited (all of Hibbert's titles are available on KU) and I'm sold! At first I wasn't aware of the UK setting, but once that was sorted in my brain I loved all the British-isms. Ruth is a great character, a woman who is very angry for very okay reasons, and the hero isn't scared of this and isn't trying to change her. That said, Evan was almost *too* perfect, but hell whatever. All men should aspire to be Evan.

Ironically, I picked this title because it was the first title I saw, and I didn't realize until I started that Ruth has Autism Spectrum Disorder. I recently read (and also loved) Helen Hoang's [b:The Kiss Quotient|36199084|The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1)|Helen Hoang|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1512080903s/36199084.jpg|57828311], which also features a female character with ASD. The authors of both books also have ASD, so the handling of the story and characters felt authentic and real, not badly stereo-typed.