Dear Ms. Evanovich:
As a fan of your Stephanie Plum series (and as a reader who masochistically enjoys being tortured by the unresolved love triangle), I have been slowly reading your early category Romances as they are re-released. Naughty Neighbor was released recently on Fictionwise for a 100% micropay rebate, making it an instant purchase for me. And of the four or so early Romances of yours I have read, Naughty Neighbor is my favorite so far. Its strengths - snappy dialogue, snappish hero and heroine, a slightly outlandish mystery to be solved - are those I enjoy in your later work, and its weaknesses - inelegant transitions to the actual romance and discomfort around romantic sentimentalism - make me glad you chose to shift away from straight Romance in your later writing.
Louisa Brannigan has recently celebrated her thirtieth birthday and is focused on career success as pres secretary to an up and coming U.S. Senator. She lives in a modest suburban house that has been converted into two apartments, and Louisa is on the bottom floor. Which would be wonderful if it weren’t for her upstairs neighbor, award-winning screenwriter …
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