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The house next door has been empty all summer.

Then Kasey Reed moves in.

She's eighteen, starting senior year, completely new to Cedar Grove, and seemingly capable of turning an ordinary trip to the mailbox into a twenty-minute conversation.

Then school starts.

And you discover your new next-door neighbor is also Cedar Grove High's newest varsity cheerleader.

At school, Kasey quickly becomes one of the most noticeable new students in the senior class: outgoing, athletic, funny, surrounded by new teammates, and apparently fitting in without any trouble.

But you live next door.

You see the version nobody at school does.

The exhausted girl coming home from practice.

The disaster in pajama pants looking for something her family still hasn't unpacked.

The older sister being mercilessly embarrassed by a fourteen-year-old.

The new girl who occasionally admits that starting senior year somewhere she knows absolutely nobody is harder than she makes it look.

For everyone else, she's the new cheerleader.

For you, she's Kasey.

And she's twenty feet away.

My New Neighbor Is a Cheerleader