The Man Next Door
by Sheila Roberts

Love in the Time of Serial Killers meets The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window in this delightful romp about a recently broke divorcee who moves in with her house-bound mother only to spend their days spying on her grumpy, mysterious, and sexy new neighbor.

Zona never thought her life was headed this way, but here she is, newly divorced and moving back in with her mom, Louise. After her gambling addicted ex-husband lost all of their savings, including their daughter's college fund, she doesn't really have a choice. She's cutting every coupon she can and she's goingto help put her daughter through nursing school, even if it kills her.

This wasn't Louise's plan, either, laid up athome with a broken leg after one unfortunate tumble on the seniorsingles cruise she'd been looking forward to for months. But if she's going to spend all her time at home, at least she's got her daughter there with her. Andthere's some hot new eye candynext doorto distract them both from their troubles. He appears to be single and just around Zona's age. Could his arrivalbe the universe making amends for everything it's put her through?

Maybe the universe isn't feeling as generous as Louise hoped.There's something lurking under that mans surface charm, something...dangerous?And who's the woman they can hear himin all-out shouting matches with on the other side of the fence?When the woman seems to disappear without a trace, imaginations run wild. Or at least, Zona hopes it's just her mother's imagination...

Sheila Roberts' Bio

Sheila Roberts lives on a lake in the Pacific Northwest. She's happily married and has three children. She's been writing since 1989, but she did lots of things before settling in to her writing career, including owning a singing telegram company and playing in a band. Her band days are over, but she still enjoys writing songs. Sheila's books are best sellers and often appear as Reader's Digest Condensed Books. Her novel "Angel Lane" was named one of Amazon's top ten romances in 2009. Her novel "On Strike for Christmas" was a Lifetime Network movie and her novel "The Nine Lives of Christmas" is currently being made into a movie for Hallmark. When she's not speaking to women's groups or at conferences or hanging out with her girlfriends she can be found writing about those things near and dear to women's hearts: family, friends, and chocolate.