Tayah Nicole Parker

The Neighbors: a Novel (Uptown Dreams Publications Presents) Tayah Nicole Parker First edition

From the bestselling author of Scandal, Deception, and Grown Folks Business comes her fourth novel... THE NEIGHBORS. Brandon and Lyric are somewhat newlyweds looking to move up in life. Brandon is a struggling novelist while Lyric is a successful entertainment attorney. Lyric wants to have kids early on while Brandon wants to wait a while. His outrageously funny mother, Mildred, continues to keep close tabs on her son---angering Lyric in the process. When Brandon is picked up by a mid-major self-publisher and his royalty check comes in the mail, he suggests they move to sunny California. Unfortunately, their move is surrounded by drama. Their mothers are rivals, Lyric?s ex doesn?t seem to understand what ?I?m married? stands for, and Brandon is slowly falling for his ex-girlfriend Summer---a successful woman who left him in order to move out West. As the drama piles up, Brandon makes a shocking discovery about his wife that brings him to his knees. What will happen? West Coast couple Bradley and Brooklyn Holmes have just moved into a new house in Santa Monica---however, they can?t afford it. Brooklyn?s hours at the salon have been cut, Bradley can?t keep a job, and Brooklyn?s baby daddy (a man she was sleeping with while remaining married to Bradley) has stopped paying her bills. In need of a new cash source, Brooklyn looks for another young man that will fall prey to her sultriness. When she meets the very married Brandon, who is currently having problems in his own marriage; she believes she?s found the key to her problems. But the more she continues to watch Brandon, the more twisted her obsession to be his woman becomes. When one thing leads to another and Brooklyn makes a claim that rocks the Christian?s close-to-happy home---all hell breaks loose...