Girl Next Door: A Hilarious Sapphic Rom-Com Brimming with Secrets, Yearning, and Heart

Someone has written a steamy bestselling romance novel about MC Calloway's life—and apparently, she's been madly in love with her childhood neighbor this whole time without knowing it.

When MC's best friend, a gossip site editor with a nose for scandal, drops the anonymous novel on her desk, MC can't decide what's more outrageous: that someone exposed her private life in explicit detail, or that the book portrays her and prickly, sharp-tongued Nora Pike—her awkward high school acquaintance—as passionate, devoted lovers. It's ridiculous. It's absurd. It might just be the career-defining scoop of the decade.

Reluctantly, MC returns to her quiet suburban hometown, bunking with her brother and his well-meaning wife while attempting to get close enough to the now-guarded, still-razor-witted Nora to unmask her as the mysterious author. The plan seems simple: charm her way in, get the story, get out.

Except Nora is nothing like the girl MC remembers. She's sharper, funnier, and infuriatingly difficult to read—and the more time MC spends trying to catch her in a lie, the more she starts wondering if the novel's version of events isn't quite as fictional as she'd assumed.

Girl Next Door is a wickedly funny, warmly romantic sapphic comedy full of secrets, slow-burn yearning, and the terrifying possibility that your biggest story might actually be your own love life. The truth, it turns out, is stranger—and sweeter—than fiction.