Silver Lining by Sophia Soames

Stewart Schiller never thought this would be the way his life turned out. Instead, he was imagining a dignified retirement, pottering around his small garden, the grandchildren playing happily as a background soundtrack.
He never thought he would be made redundant and end up alone in a big house…obsessing over his reclusive neighbour.
Stewart is more mature than that. Old enough to know better, for God’s sake.
Dylan Scotland was once the happiest house husband alive. Well, that’s what he thought, until his wife took his kids back to Miami and left him alone with nothing but despair. Now he’s stuck in the grotty basement flat with a bad case of depression and a bank account that’s draining faster than his sanity.
He’s tried meditation. Mindfulness. Bloody yoga. Manifesting solutions in his head that hurt as much as his attempts at walking barefoot on the grass outside his patio doors.
Not that he’s going to do that again. Crying in the garden while wearing nothing but a bathrobe is not a good look for meeting the hot silver fox next door. Dylan shouldn’t go outside, ever again.
His life will never be the same. And people really need to learn to mind their own business.