The Neighbors
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4.1 • 48 Ratings
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
If you lived here
It’s one of the most exclusive addresses in town—a luxury development with pristine lawns and steep price tags. But there are unforgiving people living in the Villages, who know your secrets and have plenty of their own . . . secrets that no one lives to tell . . .
You’d be dead by now.
Mackenzie Laughlin has reluctantly moved to the Villages as bodyguard to Daley Carrera, who claims someone is pranking her and her husband. Mac expects a simple case of petty squabbles between new and longtime residents. Instead, she hears rumors of squalid affairs and sinister disappearances that tie in to a missing persons investigation led by her partner, Jesse James Taft.
Welcome to the neighborhood . . .
Behind every door and every smile, there are grudges that run deep and dangerous. Mac and Taft are being marked as targets, but why? Figuring out who to trust is the key to uncovering a killer who has no qualms about killing again. The neighbors are watching. And if getting into the Villages was difficult, getting out alive may be impossible . . .
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Mystery and chemistry drive Bush's riveting third River Glen romantic suspense novel (after The Gossip). Mackenzie "Mac" Laughlin has joined fellow former cop Jesse Taft as a private detective. Mac knows she could all too easily fall for Jesse, but she won't risk her job or her heart. Still, she isn't thrilled about her latest assignment: acting as bodyguard to Daley Carrera, Taft's ex. Daley and her husband, Leon, recently moved into a high-end development called the Villages and have been victim to pranks ever since. While staying at the Carreras, Mac discovers the residents' salacious secrets, uncovers conflicts between the neighborhood's old and new guards, and learns about the relationship between the Villages' earliest residents' and the development's shady founder, Victor, dead for more than 15 years of apparent heart failure. Meanwhile, Taft investigates the death of a construction worker that may be connected to a man from the Villages. Readers will need to pay close attention to understand the tangled relationships between the extensive cast, but the payoff is rewarding and the subtle romance between Mac and Jesse helps keep the pages flying. Series fans will be well pleased.
