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

Of course, I investigated the cabin by peeping inside windows, sometimes standing on the tips of my boots, peering through icy and chilled planes of glass. To my surprise, Kane kept a tidy residence. Pillows looked fluffed on the Scandinavian-style sofa, shelves were lined with hardback Patricia Cornwell novels, free of dust. The floorboards, a strong walnut brown, gleamed from a fresh waxing. Three other rooms inside the cabin were just as immaculate. The bedroom’s full-sized bed looked freshly made with a clean bedspread, the bathroom’s white porcelain shined, and the kitchen, a sliver of a room with minimal space, sparkled from a morning’s cleaning sweep. Perhaps anal-retentive or having a fear of germs, Kane kept a ship-shape cabin anyone would have felt comfortable staying over in.


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