While you were seething A novel

Charlotte Stein

Book - 2026

"The road to love is bumpy in Charlotte Stein's WHILE YOU WERE SEETHING - a sexy and heartwarming contemporary romance filled with fake dating hijinks, delicious forced proximity, and top tier banter. Daisy Emmett has been enemies with famous romance author Caleb Miller since they were in college together, and time hasn't lessened their mutual loathing. So when she agrees to manoeuvre him through a PR disaster of his own making, she knows it's not going to be easy. She just doesn't realise how not easy until they somehow end up trapped in the same truck, on an endless road trip from one book tour stop to another, bantering and butting heads along the way. Then, even more horrifying: people appear to be mistaking her... for the woman he dedicates all his books to. The love of his life, his adored beloved - the one who doesn't actually exist. Now they're trapped into pretending she does and that Daisy is her, each fake kiss and phoney embrace ratcheting up the tension to the point where enemies suddenly seems a lot closer to lovers than either of them would like. Or so they're telling themselves. But sometimes it's hard to be sure, when seething turns into something so much more..."-- Provided by publisher.

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Subjects
Genres
Fiction
Romance fiction
Erotic fiction
Novels
Romans
Published
New York : St. Martin's Griffin 2026.
Language
English
Main Author
Charlotte Stein (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
320 p.
ISBN
9781250867995
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Review by Library Journal Review

Daisy Emmett and Caleb Miller have known each other since college and have disliked each other from the moment they met. When Caleb, now a famous romance novelist, finds himself in hot water, PR professional Daisy is tasked with accompanying him on the road trip for his apology tour to make sure that he doesn't make things any worse. When attendees at the first event mistake Daisy for the mysterious (and nonexistent) woman to whom Caleb dedicates all his books, she finds herself suddenly fake-dating the only man she truly loathes. Eventually, however, Daisy discovers that there is more underneath Caleb's hard exterior, and more to their ongoing arguments, than she could have dreamed. While Daisy's and Caleb's characters could both be more deeply developed and the pacing is uneven, this extra-steamy romance fully delivers on the enemies-to-lovers trope. VERDICT Stein (My Big Fat Fake Marriage) achieves the rare feat of penning an enemies-to-lovers novel where the leads believably hate each other. Good for libraries with robust romance collections.--Whitney Kramer

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