21 MM Fake Dating Books, From Fake Boyfriends to Fake Husbands

Zeb Evans grew up in chaos and has spent his adult life making sure it never happens again. He runs his own employment agency, keeps work and pleasure apart, and files everything in neat labelled boxes. Jesse Reed works for him and is chaos on legs. So nobody is more surprised than Zeb when he hears himself asking Jesse to come to a wedding in the countryside and pass as his boyfriend for a few days. Jesse is much younger than him, and Zeb is his boss.

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Five years ago Maddox told his childhood sweetheart he was gay to get out of marrying her, then ran to New York. Now she is getting married and expects him at the wedding with his boyfriend, who does not exist, since Maddox is straight. Damon is the brother of Maddox’s best friend, a former baseball player turned sports agent, and he has no patience for straight guys pretending. He agrees to forty-eight hours as the fake boyfriend in exchange for a meeting with a client he wants. Then Maddox kisses him in front of everyone and does not look like he is acting.

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Dr. Alec Johnson is about to receive a humanitarian award for his work with the homeless, jointly with his ex, Tyler. That means a string of events at Tyler’s side, with Tyler’s new boyfriend along too. To lift his mood Alec buys a 1964 Harley he has no idea how to start. Dylan Booth, the mechanic he calls, spent his teenage years on the streets and has no time for him, until he watches Alec struggle in front of his ex and introduces himself as the new boyfriend. Dylan is straight, the ex suspects something, and the kisses meant for Tyler start happening when nobody is watching.

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Luc is the son of two rock stars and permanently one tabloid photo away from losing his job. What he needs is a respectable boyfriend, fast. Oliver is a vegetarian barrister who has never done anything embarrassing in his life, and he agrees to the arrangement for reasons of his own. They set out to fool Luc’s employers and the press, and somewhere around the middle it stops being fake, for one of them before the other.

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Logan is an ex-Marine with no job, an eviction notice and a preteen stepson who hates him. Seth is lonely and up for a promotion that would look better with a partner at his side. The deal is simple: Logan and the boy move in with Seth for the holidays, and Logan plays the live-in boyfriend. Logan calls himself straight, the occasional hookup with a man aside, and when he finds out Seth has only ever been with one man, he offers to teach him about casual sex. They agree on rules to keep it casual, starting with no kissing.

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Levi has left the boy band behind him, and the heartbreak with it. He swapped world tours for bedtime stories with his orphaned niece. Then Cassian Monroe, the ex who broke his heart and never looked back, walks in and asks him to fake a romance. Cassian spent years hiding behind a dazzling smile and is ready to come out, but with the whole world watching he wants to do it with someone safe: candid photos, dinner dates and a fake relationship, then a clean break. Levi has never been able to say no to him.

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Nicholas Whitmore plays in the NHL, has plenty of money, and is by his own admission a world-class asshole. His parents want him at a networking event disguised as his father’s birthday party, and he plans to turn up with a fake boyfriend to prove he is not the disappointment they think he is. Andrew King is the eldest of four brothers, asexual and autistic, and so used to putting everyone else first that he says yes when a friend asks him to play the part. Nicholas has already made it clear Andrew is not his type, and he cannot work out why his money and his looks get him nowhere with him.

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Eitan Rivkin was the first overall pick in the draft, and he has just become the first active ballplayer to come out, right before his first big contract. To practise dating in front of the New York sports press, he hires a boyfriend for the cameras. The man who turns up is Akiva Goldfarb, the first Orthodox Jewish player ever drafted, who played alongside Eitan years ago and then disappeared from baseball. Akiva now edits other people’s books to pay the rent and treats the arrangement as one more gig. Then an incident on the field puts Eitan’s free agency at risk.

Dustin Fowler, captain of the Toronto Fisher Cats, went to the NHL awards in Las Vegas and came home with a trophy and a husband. His post announcing that he had married his “kitten” set the whole league talking, and nobody knows who the groom is. According to the gossip sites, it is Charlie Monaghan, a retired figure skating champion.

Noah Spencer runs a marketing and PR firm with his younger twin brothers, and he does not do relationships. He had one impulsive night with a silver fox he met in a bar, without even swapping names, and then Van Stern Enterprises hires his firm. The silver fox is Lior Van Stern, whose father has just died and left a codicil in his will: Lior has to marry within six months or lose his company shares, the museum and gardens he grew up in, and his home. Noah is the one who proposes the fake marriage.

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He is a Yale graduate, a Manhattan corporate strategist and, though almost nobody knows it, a billionaire. After one night in Vegas he is also married to Waylon, a straight cowboy and the mayor of Majestic, Wyoming. He turns up in town in thrift store clothes with divorce papers, hoping Way never finds out what he is entitled to. Way will not sign until Majestic wins the bid for a big wilderness race, so until then the two of them have to sell their one night as a real love story to the whole town.

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Tanner Chance is a widower with four kids, and when he loses his job the whole family loses its health insurance. His closest friend and hockey teammate suggests a fix: get married and put them all on his company’s plan. It is meant to stay on paper, but in a small town the wedding gets out, so they have to play house for real. He trades his high-rise for a cramped split-level, piles of laundry and a meatloaf he cannot cook, and shares a bed with the one friend he swore he would never cross a line with.

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Daniel moved to a cabin outside O’Leary to start again and trusts nobody, apart from Julian, the town vet, who has become his best friend. Julian has lived in O’Leary all his life and learned early to keep his head down. Then one morning he tells the whole town a lie he cannot take back, and Daniel, who is very straight and wants nothing to do with relationships, becomes his fake boyfriend. In a town this small, nobody is going to let it drop.

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Adrian, an influencer, comes to Legacy, Montana, to film twelve Instagram-ready holiday dates for a brand deal that could make his career. His videographer drops out, and the replacement is Maddox, who runs the hardware store, takes photos, and has no patience at all for influencers. He agrees to film as long as he stays behind the camera. Then the first date cancels and Maddox ends up in the shot. The followers love them, #TeamMaddrian starts trending, and every date after that mysteriously drops out too, so Maddox plays the boyfriend on every sleigh ride and under every sprig of mistletoe.

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Chris gets into a gorgeous stranger’s car, thinking he has finally been asked on a date. The stranger is Reed, an agent sent to keep him safe until his mafia uncle testifies, and Chris had no idea he was even related to the Fromadgio crime boss. Reed only wants the job done and his career back on track. When Chris blows their safehouse and starts a bar fight by accident, the only option left is to go undercover in Copper County, New York, as campground hosts. Married campground hosts.

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Rory’s missing ex-boyfriend’s phone switches back on in the one place Rory swore he would never go back to: the wolf pack he left years ago. The pack gathering he is invited to is almost certainly a trap, and his partner on the case is Theodore, the telepathic detective who once locked him in a cell through a full moon. To look into the missing shifters they go undercover in Scotland as a couple, and Rory has to watch what he thinks around a man who can hear it. The hotel clerk gives them one bed.

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Richard Knotz is the biggest name in supernatural adult films, and he made his brand out of the temporary bonds most shifter actors avoid. Hunter Savage is human, thinks Richard is a smug son of a wolf, and signs with him anyway because the contract could make his career: three months bonded to Richard, seven scenes, a shared apartment and one rule, do not get attached. Between shoots Richard turns out to have a soft side, and the apartment starts to feel like home.

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Meilyr is an anxious apothecary in an occupied land, born with a forbidden magic tied to nature, and he survives by keeping his head down. To save his brother’s life he ends up engaged to Osian, the prince of the invaders, and has to hide what he is in the middle of a hostile court. Then nobles start dying, killed by the same magic that runs in Meilyr’s veins. As suspicion turns towards him, he and Osian have to find the killer together before they lose the crown and their lives.

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The Interplanetary Trade Coalition wants something from the Sha Empire, and the last diplomats it sent there ended up in prison or dead. Taji Ameyo is a student linguist drafted to translate for the new ambassador, a small, outspoken human who has never learned to hide what he thinks. The Sha nobility find him fascinating and start calling him shehzha, the word for the rare, coveted partners whose lovers stake their honour on keeping them happy. His mouth soon drags him into imperial politics, and the only people he can rely on are the soldiers assigned to protect him, one of them more than the others.

Jonah thinks Dylan is a spoiled golden boy, and Dylan thinks Jonah is a show-off who never stops talking. Their friends have always said the hatred was a cover, and the rumour explodes when the two of them wake up in the same bed after homecoming. So they decide to use it: fake date for a while, then break up in a huge public fight that proves once and for all they cannot stand each other.

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Owen is at college to work hard and secure his future, and nothing else. His new roommate is Prince Zarmenus of Hell, the first student on an Earth and Hell exchange programme, who throws parties, brings boys back to their room and sets Owen’s furniture on fire. When Zar’s behaviour starts to damage relations between demons and humans, he asks Owen to be his fake boyfriend and teach him how to be a better human. In exchange, Owen gets the internship that will set up his whole career.

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