Books like The Charm Offensive
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.
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Game Changer
Scott Hunter, captain of New York's hockey team and deep in the closet, keeps going back to the smoothie shop where Kip Grady works.
Romantic Comedy
Sally Milz writes sketches for a late-night comedy show and has watched ordinary male colleagues date glamorous stars, but when pop singer Noah Brewster hosts one week and they hit it off, she is sure it cannot be real.
Just for the Summer
Justin and Emma share the same curse, since everyone they date finds true love right after breaking up with them, so they agree to date each other for the summer to cancel it out, on the small Minnesota island where Emma is looking after her half-siblings.
Boyfriend Material
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.
Glitterland
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.
Red, White & Royal Blue
Alex Claremont-Diaz, son of the American president, has a public feud with Prince Henry of Wales, and after it ends with both of them falling into a royal wedding cake, the two are ordered to stage a friendship for the cameras.
The Cheat Sheet
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.
Take a Hint, Dani Brown
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.
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
Sixteen-year-old Simon Spier is not ready to come out, but when a classmate finds his emails to Blue, an anonymous boy at school he has fallen for, Simon is blackmailed into helping the classmate win over one of his friends.
Him
Jamie Canning and Ryan Wesley, best friends at hockey camp until a drunken bet ended in a kiss, meet again in their last year of college hockey and spend a summer coaching at the same camp.
The Flatshare
Tiffy Moore needs somewhere cheap to live in London, and Leon Twomey, a palliative care nurse on night shifts, needs cash, so they share a one-bedroom flat and a bed at different hours, getting to know each other through Post-it notes.
Kulti
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.