Next to You : One wild birthday, a fixer-upper bus, and a friends-to-lovers romance packed with forced proximity, emotional baggage, and a broody handyman

Lane is in the middle of an identity crisis. Her friends are all partnered up, her career is leading nowhere, and she’s just not happy.

So, after a night out celebrating her birthday, she makes one hell of an impulse purchase: a giant yellow forty-eight passenger school bus that she intends to make a home. With little-to-no renovation experience, but a large sum of inheritance money, Lane enlists the help of her friend Matt – mechanic by trade, handyman by practice, and hottie by nature. While their mutual attraction is undeniable, Matt’s a total family guy with ‘settle down with me’ tattooed across his forehead, whereas Lane is entirely commitment averse.

Matt and Lane have silently agreed that friendship is the only thing that can ever exist between them.

So when Matt offers to help her with the bus, and in the bedroom, Lane’s sure it can never work… can it?