The Neighbor Situation (ebook)

Good fences make good neighbors. Bad fences make puppies.

Steven
For the record, my dog’s sex life isn’t something I ever want to contemplate.

I’m an accountant. I have a spreadsheet for everything, a healthy respect for boundaries, and a strict policy of not noticing my neighbor’s dimples. Luckily, I’ve been vaccinated against charming men since the last one took half the furniture and left me with the mortgage.

Ryder Donnelly has no respect for boundaries. Or shared hedges. Or the fact that my name is Steven, not Steve.

He’s six-foot-two of designer stubble and bad decisions and exists with a Jack Russell terrier who’s as shameless as his owner.

Then Ryder’s Jack Russell finds a gap in the fence and defiles my innocent Bernese mountain dog, and suddenly my vet is counting four heartbeats and telling me the puppies are due in two weeks. In the middle of tax season.

But it’s okay because Ryder’s dog is fifty percent responsible, so Ryder can do fifty percent of the work.

Ryder
Steve from next door thinks I’m a cocky, shirtless menace who tries to charm his way out of everything. Which might not be completely wrong.

What he doesn’t know is that I spent fifteen years chasing a dream that didn’t work out and now I’m rebuilding my life. I keep things simple, with no big plans or commitments, including getting involved with my uptight, ridiculously cute neighbor.

But then my dog knocks up his, and Steve’s on my doorstep with an itemized list and a plan for eight weeks of co-parenting puppies with a man who laminates everything.

Eight weeks is a long time.

But somewhere between being puppy midwives, midnight feeds, and discovering what happens when Steven finally loses control, eight weeks becomes not nearly enough time.

Unfortunately, Steve’s a stickler for a deadline.

The Neighbor Situation is a low-angst, dual-POV 50,000 word MM romantic comedy with enemies-to-lovers neighbors, a grumpy accountant and a sunshine landscape gardener, four surprise puppies, a neighborhood group chat that sees everything, and a guaranteed happily ever after.