Love, Suburban Style

May 21, 2007
Faced with a fading Broadway career and a rebellious 15-year-old daughter, single mom Meg Addams decides to move from New York to her hometown 50 miles away. Against the advice of her gay best friend Geoffrey, she drags her protesting teenager, Cosette, to Glenhaven Park, N.Y., where shockingly high real estate prices leave her with only one option: a haunted house. Fortunately, the real estate comes with not just a ghost but also a hunky next-door neighbor from Meg's past: widower Sam Rooney, for whom she suffered an unrequited high school crush. Thrown together by their kids (he's a high school teacher as well as a soccer coach), their mutual attraction and things that go bump in the night, the pair are soon waging a futile battle against their romantic instincts. Rita Award–winning author Markham (If Only in My Dreams
), a pseudonym for Wendi Corsi Staub (Don't Scream
), provides a fast-moving, ultralight take on single parenthood, suburban sex and keeping up with the soccer moms that should please chick lit fans; anyone seeking depth should look elsewhere.

June 1, 2007
WhenTony Awardwinning actress Meg Addams loses another role to a younger actress and her teenage daughter is expelled from school, Meg decides to return to herchildhood hometown in suburban Westchester County. But the town is no longer homey, and most of the old residents have left. The diner is now a sushi bar, and the quaint homes have been supersized, leaving very little hope of Meg affording a home until afixer-upper thought to be haunted becomes available. A major asset is the next-door neighbor, Sam Rooney, one of the few townies left and Megs unrequited crush from high school. The good news is that Sam is now single with two children of his own; the bad news is that he is not interested in a new relationship. A vastly entertaining romance and a real standoutlaced withotherworldly intervention and a dash of social suburban commentary.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2007, American Library Association.)