Best Offer Wins

An insanely competitive housing market. A buyer pushed to the breaking point. How far would you go for the American dream?Eighteen months and eleven 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 neighbourhood, slated to come up for sale in one month. Desperate to escape the cramped apartment she shares with her husband Ian - and in turn, get their marriage, plan to have a baby, and whole life back on track - Margo becomes obsessed with buying the house before it-s publicly listed and the masses descend (unbeatable, all-cash offers in hand). With some (harmless!) stalking and a bit of (very light!) trespassing, she worms her way into the homeowners- lives. But just when she believes she-s won them over, they uncover her scheme and shut her out. Undeterred, Margo will prove again and again that there-s nothing she won-t try - no secret too dark to leverage, no tactic too