Rosalind Resnick

Townhouse Confidential Rosalind Resnick

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single hedge fund manager in possession of a six-figure income must rent a garden apartment in the West Village while looking for a wife. When the three Perry sisters -- Elizabeth (who ices cupcakes at the Magnolia Bakery), Lydia (who works as a personal trainer at the Equinox gym) and Mary (a reclusive blogger who chronicles the celebrity townhouse market) -- inherit a New York City townhouse from their Jane Austen-loving parents, the race is on to find a wealthy tenant to rent their garden apartment to cover their mortgage, taxes, and repairs. When their real estate broker Sophie Minetta introduces them to the handsome venture capitalist Jonathan Grove, the sisters think their problems are over. But Jonathan's best friend turns out to be the rude and arrogant George Barrow, a modern day Mr. Darcy who's plotting to turn their beloved West Village into a hedgefunder Disneyland of 50-foot-wide townhouses with spas, movie theaters and in-ground pools. To make matters worse, Liz receives a foreclosure notice from the bank and discovers that someone has stolen the checkbook for their home equity line of credit and drained $100,000 in equity out of their house. Was it Sleazy Sal Carmine, the married mortgage broker that Liz met online, or Tommy Leroy, the womanizing handyman whose butt looks so good in his boot-cut jeans? And what about Jim Bedford, CEO and founder of ChickStalkers.com, Lydia's client at the gym? Now the sisters need to scramble to raise the cash to save their house before they're forced to move to Brooklyn, Queens or -- heaven forbid! -- New Jersey. Pride and Prejudice meets Sex and the City in this hilarious romp through the economics of love and real estate in New York's West Village!