by Y Tian

Created on: July 01, 2009

Once again, Nora Roberts takes us into the MacGregor clan to witness Daniel MacGregor as he rolls his latest plan into action. After successfully marrying off seven of his beloved grandchildren, he has set his eyes on Cybil Campbell as the next target. As the daughter of Genevieve Grandeau and Grant Campbell, Cybil has inherited her parents' love for art and with her own "nice little talent for the absurd," made her own mark as the successful artist of the comic strip "Friends and Neighbors." With a cheerful disposition that sees humor in most situations, Cybil is content with life and convinced that she's too slick to fall for Daniel's canny tricks.

Little did she know, Daniel has already slipped the man under her guards disguised as the perfect neighbor.

Enter Preston McQuinn. He's dark, moody and guards his solitude with a zealous that immediately brings Grant Campbell into the reader's mind. As the successful playwright of "A Tangle of Souls," Preston needed a place to stay while his house is undergoing some renovation. It just so turns out, Daniel MacGregor had a spare apartment right across the hall from Cybil, which he all so generously loaned to Preston. He cleverly knew that sooner or later, his cheerful bubbly granddaughter would barge into the gloomy playwright's life and turn it upside down for the better.

Armed with a plate of chocolate-chip cookies, Cybil crossed the hall for a friendly introduction. After an abrupt dismissal by the "insanely attractive, built like a god and as rude as a cranky two-year-old who needed a swat on the butt and a nap" Mr. Mysterious, the pair did not get off to a good start. Combined with the comical events that followed where Cybil stalked McQuinn one evening, bribed him with a hundred dollars to get her out of a date and assumed wrongly that he was a broke saxophone player in need of a job and food, the reader is left wondering how on earth is this couple going to make it.

But when is Daniel MacGregor ever wrong?

Follow the pair on their hilarious journey through life as they both discover the frightening reality of falling in love. An original story that will have you smiling from beginning to end, Nora Roberts has once again woven an entertaining yet moving tale that makes the readers fall just that little bit deeper in love with the MacGregors.

Acknowledgement:

Quotations are from "The Perfect Neighbor" by Nora Roberts.

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