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The (Fake) Dating Game


A Romance Novel


Subgenres & Tropes:

  • Fake Dating,
  • LGBTQ+ Romance,
  • Game Show,
  • Grief
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Game show antics with fake dating stakes
  • Grief and glow-up journeys wrapped in queer romance
  • Snarky hotel meet-cutes with Monopoly and pizza
Publisher Description

Ready. Set. Faux.

Holden James picked the worst time to have a meltdown. His chance to audition for his favorite game show, Madcap Market, should have been a moment of triumph—a glorious, loving homage to his adored mom, who died six years ago. Instead, he's destroying the minibar in a grim Los Angeles hotel room…recently dumped, partnerless and sliding into misery.

But at least the hotel service is sublime. It even comes with an unfairly fit and sexy (smart-ass) concierge who arrives at the door with pizza, Monopoly and deliciously distracting forearms.

All Holden knows about Leo Min is that he's beautiful and unexpectedly sympathetic, and the chemistry between them is beyond. Maybe it's even enough to convince everyone, including the show's casting directors, that they're a real couple. All they'd have to do is crush the competition, win the huge cash prize and all of Holden's problems—his broken heart, his buried grief, his complete lack of money and direction—will be fixed.

Of course, reality doesn't quite work out that way. But love is an entirely different game…

From showing up to glowing up, these characters are on the path to leading their best lives and finding sizzling romance along the way.

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