by Tracy Wolff
First published 2021
Marlowe's last three months have been a disaster. She caught her husband cheating with his paralegal, lost her New York City apartment, her job, and most of her money. Then her great-aunt Maggie died, the one person in the family who truly understood her. But Maggie left Marlowe something in her will: a house in the suburbs. Marlowe drives out to Huckleberry Hills ready to fight for her life again. The house greets her with forty-seven HOA violations and the general appearance of a structure that should not be standing. Her grumpy, attractive neighbor wastes no time telling her to mow the lawn. Marlowe is thirty-five, freshly humiliated, and done taking orders from anyone. She picks up a glass of wine and pulls up YouTube and decides she can handle this. The central tension is not really about the house. It is about whether Marlowe can rebuild herself on her own terms, stop letting other people set the rules, and figure out what she actually wants, including what to do about a neighbor who is far more irritating than he has any right to be.
Genres: fiction, contemporary, adult, adult-fiction, contemporary-romance, womens-fiction
Vibes: empowering, feel-good, heartwarming, humorous, witty
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, fish-out-of-water, forced-proximity, grumpy-neighbor
Setting: Huckleberry Hills, New York City, suburbs
Period: 21st-century
400 pages · Paperback · Entangled: Amara