The Boy Next Door

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Call before your flight leaves, at least, so we’ll know when to expect you. And remember, don’t drink on the flight: You’ll want to have all your wits about you in case the plane starts to go down, and you need to make an emergency exit.

Love,

Mommy

To: John Trent <john.trent@thenychronicle.com>; Mel Fuller <melissa.fuller@thenyjournal.com>

From: Genevieve Randolph Trent <grtrent@trentcapital.com>

Subject: Sunday dinner

Your presence is requested at dinner this Sunday at my home at 366 Park Avenue. Kindly be there promptly at seven for cocktails. Dress will be informal. Jason, Stacy, the twins, and the newest addition to the family will also be in attendance.

And might I add that I am very pleased to be issuing this invitation to you, Miss Fuller. I have a feeling that in the future we will be enjoying a great many more Sunday dinners together.

Stacy has suggested that, now that you’ve gotten a taste for writing together, you two will want to start a newspaper of your own. I must say I find such an idea markedly distasteful. There are far too many newspapers in this town already, in my opinion.

But, then, I’m just an old woman. What do I know?

Looking forward to seeing you,

Mim

To: Mel Fuller <melissa.fuller@thenyjournal.com>

From: John Trent <john.trent@thenychronicle.com>

Subject: Hey

How about knocking off early and joining me and Paco for a little walk? We have something we want to ask you.

John

To: John Trent <john.trent@thenychronicle.com>

From: Mel Fuller <melissa.fuller@thenyjournal.com>

Subject: I couldn’t think of anything

I’d like to do more.

And by the way, the answer is yes.

Mel

Acknowledments

Many thanks to

Beth Ader, Jennifer Brown,

Laura Langlie, and David Walton.

About the Author

Meg (a.k.a.) Meggin Cabot is the author of the bestselling, critically acclaimed, immensely popular Princess Diaries novels—Volumes I-III (The Princess Diaries; Princess in the Spotlight; and Princess in Love) are published by PerfectBound, along with All-American Girl. The Boy Next Door is her first adult contemporary book. She is also the author of (among many, many other books, including even more Princess Diaries titles) She Went All the Way; Haunted: A Tale of the Mediator; and two Regency-era novels , Nicola and the Viscount and Victoria and the Rogue. Meg lives with her husband in New York City. Please visit www.megcabot.com.

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Credits

Cover design by Michelle Caplan

Cover illustration by Chuck Gonzales

Copyright

THE BOY NEXT DOOR. Copyright © 2002 by Meggin Cabot. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

EPub Edition © JULY 2003 ISBN: 9780061828867

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