
Luc O'Donnell, the tabloid-hounded son of two rock stars, needs to look respectable to keep his job at a dung beetle charity, so he fakes a relationship with Oliver Blackwood, a starchy barrister.
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Ash Winters, a once-celebrated novelist living with severe depression, meets Darian Taylor, a would-be model from Essex, at a stag party in Brighton.

Dev Deshpande, a producer on a dating reality show, is put in charge of its new star, Charlie Winshaw, a tech millionaire with anxiety who can't get through a scene.

Elsie Hannaway, a theoretical physicist who pays the rent as a fake girlfriend for hire, finds that the brother of one of her clients sits on the committee deciding her dream job.

Catalina Martín needs a date for her sister's wedding in Spain, where her ex will be the best man, and the only volunteer is Aaron Blackford, the tall, infuriating colleague she cannot stand.

Bree Camden, whose ballet career ended in a car accident, and NFL star Nathan Donelson have been best friends since high school and secretly in love for just as long, until a tipsy confession in a club bathroom to a woman who turns out to be a gossip reporter goes viral.

In Regency London, Daphne Bridgerton, eldest daughter of a large and loving family, and Simon Basset, the new Duke of Hastings, who has sworn never to marry, pretend to court so he can escape the matchmaking mothers and she can attract better suitors.

Liz Buxbaum, a high school senior who lives by romantic comedies, asks her irritating next-door neighbour, Wes Bennett, to help her win back her childhood crush, Michael, who has just moved back to town.

Shay Goldstein, a producer at Seattle's public radio station, is told to co-host a new show about relationships with Dominic Yun, the newcomer she resents, on one condition from the station: they have to pretend to be exes.

To convince her best friend she has moved on, Olive Smith, a third-year biology PhD student at Stanford, kisses the first man she sees, who turns out to be Adam Carlsen, a young professor known for making students cry.

Sal Casillas, a defender in the women's professional soccer league, is dismayed when her childhood hero, the German football legend Reiner Kulti, joins her team as assistant coach and turns out to be a grump.

A year in the diary of Bridget Jones, a thirty-something Londoner counting calories, cigarettes and units of alcohol, torn between her charming, caddish boss Daniel Cleaver and Mark Darcy, a stiff barrister her mother keeps pushing at her.

When everyone at her twin sister's wedding gets food poisoning except Olive Torres and the groom's insufferable brother Ethan, the two take the couple's free honeymoon to Maui, which means pretending to be newlyweds for ten days.