The Boy Next Door by Katy Baker

Melissa Smyth is enraged when her parents enlist the help of their next door neighbor to look after the house while they are away, not trusting Melissa to do it. Determined to prove she's in charge, Melissa decides to use all her feminine wiles to make her geeky neighbor regret his decision. But little does she know that Rory Thompson has ideas of his own. He's been travelling for the last three years and is geeky no longer. As these two old adversaries come together, who will come out on top? One thing is for sure - sparks will fly. 

            This story is only 16 pages long. Pretty much just a few chapters and it’s over. It is a really good start to a story though. I didn’t know it was 16 pages when I got it, so I got to the end and thought that maybe the whole story didn’t transfer. Nope, it’s just really short.

            So the basic storyline is that 19 year old Melissa is being left at home while her parents go out of town. They get the boy next door (recently home from somewhere else) to do things like clean the pool, mow the yard…that sort of thing. Melissa is mad because ‘they don’t trust her’. When Rory shows up, she is surprised that he’s not the little geeky boy that she used to be able to boss around. There was a power struggle, she dumps him in the pool and he pulls her in, and then they end up having sex. The end.

            So you can see where I was like “What’s next?” and then it’s over! Still it’s not a bad story. The only other thing to mention is that the title is different in different locations. Sometimes it was "The Boy Next Door" and sometimes it was "Banging the Boy Next Door". This makes it difficult to find but Amazon is really good about keeping track of that. In general I am rating this book 2 stars. It’s not bad but it’s not really a whole/complete story.

Publisher: Sold by Amazon Digital Services, Inc.

ASIN: B00CCH4WKI

Price: free on Kindle (usually $0.99)