He didn't want neighbors and she just wanted a fresh start. Macy is starting over in a new town with her little brother to take care of. She settled on a small town where no one knows their past and they can be themselves without the shadow their father casts over them. Daniel agreed to rent his property, but it was supposed to be simple instead, a kid and a dog interrupt his life from day one. Annoyed by the disturbance, he pushes them away until the day he really needs them. When Daniel gets injured and Macy comes to the rescue, feelings get in the way. Macy agrees to help Daniel until he's recovered but never could have predicted that the arrival of Daniel's ex-fiance would lead to a fake engagement for herself. Sparks fly when the town gets involved in the fake wedding and Macy and Daniel have to decide what they really want from each other. How far will they take this fake engagement? Can it become real?

At first glance, Barbara Kalish fit the stereotype of a 1950s wife and mother. Married at eighteen, Barbara lived with her husband and two daughters in a California suburb, where she was president of the Parent-Teacher Association. At a PTA training conference in San Francisco, Barbara met Pearl, another PTA president who also had two children and happened to live only a few blocks away from her. To Barbara, Pearl was "the most gorgeous woman in the world," and the two began an affair that lasted over a decade. Through interviews, diaries, memoirs, and letters, Her Neighbor's Wife traces the stories of hundreds of women, like Barbara Kalish, who struggled to balance marriage and same-sex desire in the postwar United States. In doing so, Lauren Jae Gutterman draws our attention away from the postwar landscape of urban gay bars and into the homes of married women, who tended to engage in affairs with wives and mothers they met in the context of their daily lives: through work, at church, or in their neighborhoods. In the late 1960s and 1970s, the lesbian feminist movement and the no-fault divorce revolution transformed the lives of wives who desired women. Women could now choose to divorce their husbands in order to lead openly lesbian or bisexual lives; increasingly, however, these women were confronted by hostile state discrimination, typically in legal battles over child custody. Well into the 1980s, many women remained ambivalent about divorce and resistant to labeling themselves as lesbian, therefore complicating a simple interpretation of their lives and relationship choices. By revealing the extent to which marriage has historically permitted space for wives' relationships with other women, Her Neighbor's Wife calls into question the presumed straightness of traditional American marriage.

At first glance, Barbara Kalish fit the stereotype of a 1950s wife and mother. Married at eighteen, Barbara lived with her husband and two daughters in a California suburb, where she was president of the Parent-Teacher Association. At a PTA training conference in San Francisco, Barbara met Pearl, another PTA president who also had two children and happened to live only a few blocks away from her. To Barbara, Pearl was "the most gorgeous woman in the world," and the two began an affair that lasted over a decade. Through interviews, diaries, memoirs, and letters, Her Neighbor's Wife traces the stories of hundreds of women, like Barbara Kalish, who struggled to balance marriage and same-sex desire in the postwar United States. In doing so, Lauren Jae Gutterman draws our attention away from the postwar landscape of urban gay bars and into the homes of married women, who tended to engage in affairs with wives and mothers they met in the context of their daily lives: through work, at church, or in their neighborhoods. In the late 1960s and 1970s, the lesbian feminist movement and the no-fault divorce revolution transformed the lives of wives who desired women. Women could now choose to divorce their husbands in order to lead openly lesbian or bisexual lives; increasingly, however, these women were confronted by hostile state discrimination, typically in legal battles over child custody. Well into the 1980s, many women remained ambivalent about divorce and resistant to labeling themselves as lesbian, therefore complicating a simple interpretation of their lives and relationship choices. By revealing the extent to which marriage has historically permitted space for wives' relationships with other women, Her Neighbor's Wife calls into question the presumed straightness of traditional American marriage.

What happens when you ask God, “What do you want me to do today?” This is not a success story. And it’s not one of those stories that has a beginning, a middle, and then a perfectly tidy hind end either. It’s really just a beginning. For thirty days Kendra Broekhuis prayed “to maintain the joy of being wife and mommy amid the daily grind. To see the world through God’s eyes. To live intentionally. To build relationships and share Christ’s love with our neighbors. To learn what it really means to give. To collide ‘motherhood’ with ‘mission.’” This became her motto, her credo, her personal mission statement. Some days it led to actions the Lord gently nudged her to take. Other days it led to reflections the Lord gently whispered into her heart. Every day it led to a single word, one underlying theme that ties all thirty days – all thirty chapters – and their wide variety of topics together: giving. These thirty days found Kendra and her husband and daughter in a strange time of transition. They had just moved back to the United States after teaching for three years in the beautiful country of Guatemala. They were in a new city, working a new job, living in a new apartment building, in search of a new church. And they wanted to put it all together: all of their experiences, all of the things they had just seen and learned and read and discussed. It wasn’t a clean slate but rather a chance to live intentionally. When Kendra and her husband sought advice about the transition from fellow missionary friends, the advice was, “Get to know your neighbors.” It might sound like strange advice, but it made sense. Jesus tells us to “Love God and love your neighbor.” Many times the word neighbor is meant to be vague, but it shouldn’t always be. Part of being mission-minded, no matter where you live or work, is being willing to love the people closest to you, people we often overlook. Kendra’s neighbors—as in the people who live in the other eleven apartments in her building—are whom she often found the Lord’s generosity overflowing to and from during these thirty days.

When Mariah meets Graham in the elevator of her building she couldn't believe her luck having a tall, dark, and handsome neighbor living next door. working her way to being one of the top DJ's in the city she isn't sure she has time for all the responsibility that he entails. Graham came home from the military a war hero but carries scars that haunt him for life. He takes care of his niece and is a devoted fiance. But taking care of everyone around him can be overpowering. When Mariah comes sweeping into his life he selfishly wants to keep her there as something for himself. To bad his fiance and Mariah's best friend Aubrey are in the wings determined to pull that apart. Karey is a trust fund baby who has her life and her luxurious wedding all planned out. Her body has been sculpted by the best surgeons to look like a Barbie and Graham is going to be her Ken. Aubrey is a blasian bad boy that has had his eye on Mariah since the first day they met. Determined to get out of the friend zone he is bypassing Graham and playing for keeps.

BONUS INSIDE! Two for the price of one. Also check out the sizzling novella, SHOW ME, inside. Sometimes a girl should be careful what she asks for because she just might get it... To appease her matchmaking grandmother, wedding planner Zanaa Reynolds announces that she's engaged. To her dismay, the small white lie spirals out of control when her parents insist that she bring her fiancé home for the holidays. With Christmas only three weeks away, Zanaa must find a fiancé ASAP, or her grandmother will have every eligible bachelor in town lined up at the front door when Zanaa arrives. In a state of panic, Zanaa asks Scott Simmons to marry her. Although it isn't a real proposal, her sinfully sexy next-door neighbor is all too real. Videogame entrepreneur Scott has wanted Zanaa from the day he moved in next door. When she asked for his help, he accepted her proposal with the goal of seducing her. Unfortunately, Zanaa starts having second thoughts and tries to back out of their arrangement. But Scott won't be denied. Now that Zanaa has made the first move, he has every intention of taking their relationship all the way...even to the altar. "Angie Daniels displays a great sense of humor, and sexual tension permeates the characters' relationship throughout." RT Book Reviews on The Playboy's Proposition