Enjoyable, sweet romance with two people who seemed so different at first, but really had similar core values. I liked the time they spent getting to know one another and loved their conversations. There were little twists in the story, with some making the story interesting, and some making it slightly unbelievable. An easy read that made me smile.

This book is avaible for free on the author’s website or you can purchase the full version. My review is on the published version.

http://josephinemyles.com/free-reads/boats-in-the-night/

Like two ships passing in the night—if one was a narrowboat and the other a luxury yacht.

Disgraced private school teacher Giles Rathbourne has been sent home on extended sick-leave and is stuck in a rut of obsessive housework and drinking. His ex may have been a snobbish bastard, but without him, Giles is adrift, rattling around his huge, lonely house. When a dreadlocked narrowboater’s engine breaks down at the end of his canal-side garden, Giles is furious at this invasion of his privacy—for a while.

Smutty might not have ever held down a proper job, but the fire-dancing, free-spirited traveller can recognise an opportunity for mutual benefit when he sees it. Giles’ extensive gardens are in as desperate need of attention as the upper-class hunk is himself, whereas Smutty knows a thing or two about plants and needs a place to moor up.

A simple business arrangement between two men who have nothing else in common? It would be—if they could keep their hands off each other!