After the death of his uncle, Dalton Prie is ordered by his unpleasant and bossy mother to drive out to the woodsy lakeside town where his uncle lived to clear out his cabin. As Dalton diligently works boxing up his uncle's trinkets and realizing his uncle had hoarding issues, he meets two men he'd like to know more about. Officer Noah Rexington is a hot cop with the local PD and Joshua Kane is the strange, burly neighbor next door.<br><br>Soon Dalton develops a slight crush on Officer Rexington. He also realizes something shady is happening at Joshua's residence. When Dalton becomes The Curious Neighbor investigating Kane's property, he begins to learn many things about Kane, and of the man's unbelievable secrets ...

The Curious Neighbor

The afternoon ticked by with soup and a sandwich for lunch, three s of The Girl on the Train, and a short nap. The temperature had dropped ten degrees by two p.m. and more wind from Canada pelted the cabin’s windows. Snow blew around in miniature tornadoes. Of course, I kept the fire going in the hearth, warming the place. Had Noah been around, he would have probably done the task for me: fetching logs from a wood pile that was stacked on the right side of the cabin, adding pieces of logs to the already hot fire, and making sure air circulated through the blaze, poking and prodding at the pieces of wood with a wrought-iron hook on a long handle.


Chapter 16