title: Hanging by a Thread
author: Templeton, Karen
description: You can take the girl out of Queens...
  
  Or can you? Because for five years, fashion assistant Ellie Levine was taking a halfhearted stab at it, commuting to Manhattan by day, trying desperately to keep secret her outerborough existence -- that accent, that hair...that daughter. Until the day fate landed her back in her Richmond Hill neighborhood 24/7, the very place she'd sworn to escape.
  
  Now she has a business to run there -- not the business she had in mind, perhaps, but a business nonetheless. And the boy next door, who for years had been the married-man-next-door, is suddenly available. And interested?
  
  Maybe there really is no place like home. So even if you can take the girl out of Queens, would you?