Best offer wins : a novel

Eighteen months and 11 lost bidding wars into house-hunting in the overheated Washington, DC suburbs, 37-year-old publicist Margo Miyake gets a tip about the perfect house, in the perfect neighborhood, slated to come up for sale in one month. Margo becomes obsessed with buying the house before it’s publicly listed and the masses descend with unbeatable, all-cash offers in hand. A little stalking? Harmless. A bit of trespassing? Necessary.