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The Charm Offensive

In this witty and heartwarming romantic comedy --- reminiscent of RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE and ONE TO WATCH --- an awkward tech wunderkind on a reality dating show goes off-script when sparks fly with his producer.

Dev Deshpande has always believed in fairy tales. So it’s no wonder then that he’s spent his career crafting them on the long-running reality dating show "Ever After." As the most successful producer in the franchise’s history, Dev always scripts the perfect love story for his contestants, even as his own love life crashes and burns. But then the show casts disgraced tech wunderkind Charlie Winshaw as its star.

Charlie is far from the romantic Prince Charming "Ever After" expects. He doesn’t believe in true love, and only agreed to the show as a last-ditch effort to rehabilitate his image. In front of the cameras, he’s a stiff, anxious mess with no idea how to date 20 women on national television. Behind the scenes, he’s cold, awkward and emotionally closed-off.

As Dev fights to get Charlie to connect with the contestants on a whirlwind, worldwide tour, they begin to open up to each other, and Charlie realizes he has better chemistry with Dev than with any of his female co-stars. But even reality TV has a script, and in order to find to happily ever after, they’ll have to reconsider whose love story gets told.

Audiobook available; read by Vikas Adam and Graham Halstead, with Cassandra Campbell

The Charm Offensive
by Alison Cochrun

  • Publication Date: September 7, 2021
  • Genres: Comedy, Fiction, Humor, Romance
  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Atria Books
  • ISBN-10: 1982170719
  • ISBN-13: 9781982170714