Nosiness, Nuzzling & Neighborly Advice: A Romantic Comedy

By Dalton Douglas

Ian Ward moved to Dalton for one reason: silence.

He bought a house with a long driveway, a respectful number of trees, and enough distance from the road to qualify as a privacy policy. The plan was simple-unpack, exhale, and avoid human interaction for at least six business days.

Dalton has other plans.

Within minutes, Ian is ambushed by a welcome basket, interrogated for "emergency purposes," adopted by a feral gray cat with boundary issues, and introduced to his next-door neighbor: Micah Barton-warm, handy, relentlessly helpful, and dangerously good at showing up without pushing too hard.

Micah flirts like it's a public service. Ian panics like it's a survival skill.

Between unsolicited "neighborly advice," fix-it montages that turn into intimacy, snow-day soup deliveries, and a town that treats matchmaking like a community sport, Ian has to learn the hardest thing of all: boundaries aren't walls-they're instructions for how to stay.

Because quiet isn't the absence of people.

It's the presence of the right one.

Nosiness, Nuzzling & Neighborly Advice is a cozy small-town M/M romantic comedy packed with found family, gentle caretaking, laugh-out-loud meddling, a cat named Pickles who chooses violence, and a happily-ever-after that arrives exactly when Ian stops running.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GNK5LYJW
• ISBN13: 9798248438877
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"