The 8 Mistakes of Amy Maxwell

By Heather Balog

Suspicious neighbors. Drug ring rumors. A nosy (and exhausted) mom erring on the side of fantasy. It's a recipe for disaster...or untimely death.
Amy has four kids, a husband who's allergic to housework, and crusted applesauce on her yoga pants that haven't seen the inside of a gym in over a decade. Not only is the dust and laundry in her house threatening to kidnap her, she hasn't met a meal that she can't burn in under five minutes flat. She's convinced her teenage daughter is up to no good, her ten-year-old can't stop chattering in her ear, and her oldest son has suddenly befriended a teenage boy twice his age who is a tad bit strange. And don't even get her started on having a toddler when you're in your late thirties. She just can't keep up. Amy's exhausted and dissatisfied with her life, feeling like she's a disappointment to everyone-her kids, her husband, and most of all, herself.
To relieve her stress, Amy finds herself fantasizing about everything from the hot pool boy next door to her daughter being switched at birth. It's harmless, she thinks. That is until Jason, a very sexy forty-something moves in across the street and Amy finds her wild imagination has gone feral. Something about Jason sparks suspicion in Amy and she launches a full-scale investigation into his origins and activities. This leads Amy and her thirteen-year-old daughter Allie to stumble upon the body of another neighbor, shot to death in her living room. Before she knows what hit her, Amy is thrown together with Jason in the most unpredictable way. She tries desperately to halt her fantasies and deny her underlying attraction towards Jason as this who-done-it mystery slowly unfolds and she soon realizes that nobody is who she thinks they are...including Amy herself.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1500664774
• ISBN13: 9781500664770
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"