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The Trouble Next Door: A Neighbor Romantic Comedy
Paperback
Publisher: Trevor Jensen
Published: Mar 10 2026
Pages: 434
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.97 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Welcome to Juniper Ridge Court - a neighborhood where privacy is optional, opinions are plentiful, and love tends to move in next door.
Nina Hart runs the cul-de-sac the way other people run companies: with color-coded plans, detailed agendas, and a clipboard that has become something of a neighborhood legend. Meetings start on time. Projects stay on schedule. And if the Juniper Ridge group chat occasionally treats her like a benevolent dictator, well...someone has to keep things organized.
Everything works perfectly.
Until Owen Mercer moves in.
Owen is calm, observant, and annoyingly difficult to manage. He asks simple questions that dismantle Nina's carefully constructed systems. He solves problems without making a big deal about it. And worst of all, he seems to enjoy watching Nina try not to lose control of her perfectly ordered world.
When a neighborhood improvement project forces them to work together, their polite rivalry quickly turns into something far more complicated. Owen refuses to follow Nina's rulebook. Nina refuses to admit she might actually like that.
Unfortunately, Juniper Ridge Court notices everything.
From wine-night speculation to group-chat commentary and well-meaning neighbors who think matchmaking counts as community service, the entire cul-de-sac quickly becomes an enthusiastic audience for the escalating tension between Nina and Owen.
The more time they spend together, the harder it becomes to pretend their arguments are only about landscaping plans and committee logistics. Owen's quiet steadiness begins to challenge Nina's belief that control is the only way to keep life from falling apart. And Nina's fierce dedication to the neighborhood starts to reveal a softer side Owen didn't expect to find.
But letting someone get close means risking the one thing Nina has worked hardest to protect: the carefully structured life she built for herself.
And Owen isn't interested in following a plan that doesn't include honesty.
Now Nina has a choice to make. She can keep running Juniper Ridge Court exactly the way she always has-safe, organized, and predictable.
Or she can take a risk on the one neighbor who seems determined to rewrite her entire rulebook.
After all, on this street the houses may be perfectly arranged...
...but the best surprises are usually waiting right next door.
The Trouble Next Door is a warm, banter-filled romantic comedy about community, second chances, and discovering that the person who disrupts your plans might be exactly the one who belongs in them.
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