 Popsugar Reading Challenge category: A book in which an adult character changes careers.
Act Your Age, Eve Brown, by Talia Hibbert. This is the final book in Hibbert's Brown Sisters trilogy, and it's a grumpy/sunshine, enemies-to-lovers romance. This one is more over-the-top than the other two, starting with a ridiculous meet-cute where she accidentally backs her car into him. This results in him having to hire her as the cook at his bed-and-breakfast. They annoy each other a lot at first. Eve is irresponsible, dropping and picking up one job after another. Jacob's autism manifests in an extreme need for order, and being blunt to the point of rudeness. Later, we see Jacob's wounds from having parents who rejected him, and Even figures out she's likely on the spectrum as well. As the two fall for each other, there's occasional mention of the ethical problem of Jacob being her boss, but then it's just shrugged off. (To be fair, Eve's wealthy & not dependent on the job.) The third-act breakup is a little predictable, but believably rooted in the character's insecurities. And the reconciliation is as over-the-top as their meeting, and once again involves traffic.
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