Girl Next Door

Rachel Meredith

Language: English

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: Sep 15, 2025

Description:

"Girl Next Door is everything I love. Complex characters, a prickly love interest, secrets, yearning, questionable decisions, and that glorious HEA. A tender, funny, sexy novel." — Ashley Herring Blake, author of Delilah Green Doesn't Care

In this charming debut rom-com, a young freelancer returns to her suburban hometown to uncover why her childhood next door neighbor's bestselling book appears to be an epic love story about the two of them.

When MC Calloway's best friend Joe, an editor at the notorious gossip website Jawbreaker, calls her in for an emergency meeting, MC is unprepared for how frantic he is. But when he shows her a copy of Girl Next Door, the steamy, bestselling rom-com taking the literary world by storm, written under a pen name, points to one of the women on the front cover, and says, "that's you," its MC who begins to panic.

Joe is convinced that the author is Nora Pike, MC's prickly, childhood...