Love Thy Neighbor

THE NOVELLA EDITION

Darla remembers what it felt like to be noticed. Once the girl everyone watched, she now lives inside a marriage strained by silence, disappointment, and the growing suspicion that her husband may no longer see her at all.

Then the neighbor dies.

When police officer Bennett reveals that something deeply disturbing was discovered inside the dead man's house, Darla expects to feel violated. Instead, the revelation awakens something far more complicated. The quiet stranger across the way had been paying attention, and now that he is gone, Darla cannot stop wondering what that attention meant.

As fascination becomes ritual, Johnny must confront the wife he has neglected, a dead man he cannot compete with, and his own uneasy place in everything that follows.

Darkly comic, sexually unsettling, and unexpectedly moving, Love Thy Neighbor is a novella about marriage, voyeurism, aging, betrayal, and the dangerous comfort of being wanted. It explores the ugly truths hidden behind respectable windows, and the terrible beauty people sometimes discover in the middle of an emotional hell.