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

About this book

MC Calloway’s life takes a surreal turn when her best friend, a gossip site editor, presents her with a bestselling, steamy romance novel that is clearly based on her own life. Even more shocking? The book depicts a deep, passionate love affair between the protagonist and her childhood neighbor, Nora Pike—a woman MC remembers only as her prickly, awkward high school acquaintance. Convinced the book is a goldmine for a career-defining scoop, MC’s friend convinces her to go undercover in their suburban hometown to unmask the anonymous author. Reluctantly, MC returns home, crashing with her brother and his wife while attempting to get close to the now-suspicious and still-sharp-tongued Nora. As she digs deeper to uncover why Nora would write a book portraying them as lovers, the line between fiction and reality begins to blur. The trope-filled journey of enemies-to-lovers tension heats up as MC realizes that the version of events in the book might hold more truth than she initially dared to imagine. As both women guard their own carefully kept secrets, MC finds herself falling for the woman she was sent to expose, proving that some stories are far more complicated than the pages suggest.