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Dean Deshpan de Sappe always believed in fairy‑tale endings, and his faith in happy‑end romances helped him build a famed career producing a popular romantic reality show. He crafts perfect love stories for the contestants, while his own personal life remains imperfect.
Tech genius Charlie Winchester, far from a classic romantic hero, doubts true love and joined the show only to salvage his tarnished image. He feels uneasy in front of cameras and has no idea how to manage relationships with twenty women on national television.
As filming progresses, Charlie and Dean open up to one another, and Charlie discovers that talking with Dean brings more joy than the show’s dates. To end with a "happily ever after," both must rewrite their script for love.
First publish date: 2021
Genre: Literary Fiction/Contemporary Literary Fiction
Authors: Alison Cochrun
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