
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.
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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.

Bee Königswasser, a neuroscientist, wins the chance to co-lead a NASA research project, only to learn that her partner is Levi Ward, the engineer who has seemed to despise her since graduate school.

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.

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.

Stuck in a hotel elevator with Alexa Monroe, a stranger, paediatric surgeon Drew Nichols asks her to be his date at his ex-girlfriend's wedding that weekend, and the arrangement keeps going long after the cake is cut.

Summer Preston, a psychology student who needs a hockey player for her research project, keeps running into Aiden Crawford, the team captain who has no time for her.

Danika Brown, a PhD student who wants sex without feelings, is rescued from a stuck lift during a fire drill by Zafir Ansari, a security guard and former rugby player, and when the video goes viral as a love story, they agree to fake one.

Nora Stephens, a ruthless New York literary agent, agrees to spend a month in the small town of Sunshine Falls, North Carolina, to please her younger sister, and keeps running into Charlie Lastra, a brooding editor from the city she cannot stand.

After one wild night too many, Los Angeles socialite Piper Bellinger is cut off and sent with her sister to Westport, a fishing town in Washington, to run the dive bar their late father left them, where a gruff sea captain bets she will not last.

January, a romance novelist who no longer believes in love, and Gus, a gloomy literary novelist and her old college rival, are summer neighbours, and they bet each other to swap genres.

Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman, assistants to the two chief executives of a newly merged publishing company, share an office and loathe each other, and a promotion only one of them can win turns their war of games personal.

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.