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Love, Suburban Style

Love, Suburban Style, July 2007
by Wendy Markham

Warner Forever
Featuring: Sam Rooney; Meg Addams
384 pages
ISBN: 0446618438
EAN: 9780446618434
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Love, Suburban Style
Wendy Markham

Reviewed by Audrey Sharpe
Posted August 6, 2007

Contemporary | Romance Contemporary

Tony award-winning actress Astor Hudson has just had the worst day of her life. A beautiful young ingénue stole the role Astor wanted for herself, and her fifteen-year- old daughter Cosette was expelled from school for flashing a gun. It's time to get out of the pressure cooker that is New York and move back upstate to her hometown of Glenhaven Park.

Transforming herself from her stage persona of Astor Hudson back into small town Meg Addams is easier than she expects, but Meg soon learns that even in her quaint hometown, things have changed. Her childhood home just sold for over a million dollars, the streets are filled with Fancy Moms driving monstrous SUVs, and the local mom- and-pop businesses are now trendy restaurants and boutiques. It's enough to make a woman want to cry, but Meg is determined to create a better life for Cosette and herself, so she buys the only house in town that she can afford; the one that's rumored to be haunted.

The possibility of a resident ghost becomes a lot easier to take when Meg realizes that her teenage crush, Sam Rooney, happens to live right next door. While Sam may not remember the quiet girl Meg used to be, she certainly remembers him, and she quickly discovers that her teenage crush is turning into a very adult version of lust, a lust Sam seems to share. When the friendly neighborhood ghost begins knocking one night, Sam's only too eager to give Meg and Cosette a refuge, especially when he and Meg end up in each others' arms.

But Sam isn't interested in getting seriously involved with anyone; he's still licking the wounds from his wife's sudden death in a car accident three years ago, and opening himself and his two teenage kids to that kind of pain is not something he's willing to do again, ever. So, while Sam tries to keep himself from becoming emotionally attached to Meg, fate, with a little help from the ghost, keeps pushing the two of them together.

What follows is an intense battle of wills, combined with a maelstrom of past and present emotions that threatens to destroy what little peace remains for Meg and Sam in their small town. LOVE, SUBURBAN STYLE proves that you can't reclaim the past, but you might be able to come to terms with the present, and build a better future.

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SUMMARY

Fed up with her moody teenage daughter, Meg Addams decides what they both need is a good dose of suburban wholesomeness. But when they leave Manhattan behind for Meg's humble blue-collar hometown, they find it crowded with wealthy strangers and upscale boutiques. Settling into a creaky fixer-upper, Meg finally spots a familiar face right next door--and it belongs to none other than Sam Rooney. The would-be love of Meg's high school life is now a single dad, her daughter's new soccer coach--and a neighborly ghost-buster whenever things go bump in the night.

With three kids and an undeniable attraction between them, Meg and Sam are in for some heart-racing, wee-hour encounters that have nothing to do with spirits...but everything to do with hearts.


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