Back in the Burbs

At thirty-five, Mallory has lost the husband, the job and the money in short order, and her great-aunt Maggie's death leaves her with the one thing she did not plan for: a house in the New Jersey suburbs she grew up desperate to escape.

The house comes with forty-seven separate HOA violations, a roof that needs work, and Nick — the grumpy, extremely good-looking neighbour who is also the HOA president, and whose opening move is to tell her to mow the lawn. Mallory decides to take on the house, her family, and her own wrecked confidence with a level of determination she has not felt in years, and Nick keeps turning up in the middle of it.

Back in the Burbs is the first book in Tracy Wolff and Avery Flynn's The Burbs series, a steamy suburban rom-com about starting over that pairs its jokes with genuine weight about leaving a bad marriage.