Boy (Cabot)

Gossip columnist and single New York City girl Mel lives in the most exciting place in the world, yet she's bored with her lovelife. But things get interesting fast when the old lady next door is nearly murdered. Mel starts paying closer attention to her neighbors-what exactly is going on with the cute boy next door? Has Mel found the love of her life-or a killer?

New York Times best-selling author Meggin Cabot presents an inventive new novel of contemporary relationships and the quest to find true love in New York City. Written entirely in the format of amusing e-mail correspondences between employees of the NY Journal, The Boy Next Door relates the hilarious and hectic life of serially tardy gossip columnist, Melissa Fuller.

Meet Kate Mackenzie. She: works for the T.O.D. (short for Tyrannical Office Despot, also known as Amy Jenkins, director of the Human Resources Division at the New York Journal); is sleeping on the couch because her boyfriend of ten years refuses to commit; can't find an affordable studio apartment anywhere in New York City; and thinks things can't get any worse. They can. Because: the T.O.D. is making her fire the most popular employee in the paper's senior staff dining room; that employee is now suing Kate for wrongful termination; and now Kate has to give a deposition in front of Mitch Hertzog, the scion of one of Manhattan's wealthiest law families, who embraces everything Kate most despises . . . but also happens to have a nice smile and a killer bod. The last thing anybody-least of all Kate Mackenzie-expects to find in a legal arbitration is love. But that's the kind of thing that can happen when . . . Boy Meets Girl.

Cartoonist Jane Harris is delighted by the prospect of her first-ever trip to Europe. But it's hate at first sight for Jane and Cal Langdon, and neither is too happy at the prospect of sharing a villa with one another for a week-not even in the beautiful and picturesque Marches countryside. But when Holly and Mark's wedding plans hit a major snag that only Jane and Cal can repair, the two find themselves having to put aside their mutual dislike for one another in order to get their best friends on the road to wedded bliss-and end up on a road themselves . . . one neither of them ever expected.