FAKE DATING. REAL CHEMISTRY.

Evie was a brilliant neuroscientist whose career has gone up in flames. Dominic is an arrogant Hollywood heartthrob secretly head over heels for his assistant.

EVIE: I’d rather not talk about what happened to my promising career. I was supposed to spend my life studying brilliant minds. Instead, I spend my days managing an enormous ego.

That ego belongs to Dominic Ward, Hollywood’s most demanding—and annoyingly flirtatious—movie star. However, when I need a date to my sister’s wedding in my hometown of Sweetwater Beach, Dominic steps up. My hypothesis? Five days pretending to date my insufferable boss will be a disaster. Except he starts making my heart race and my brain malfunction. I’m a neuroscientist. I understand the science behind attraction. I just refuse to believe I’m experiencing it.

DOMINIC: Evie didn’t want to work for me. I hired her anyway because she’s brilliant, ridiculously competent, and the only person in Hollywood who tells me exactly what she thinks. Usually at considerable length.

She can explain the most complicated workings of the human brain, but somehow she hasn’t figured out that I’m crazy about her. Five days pretending to be her boyfriend might be my only chance to make her fall in love with me. She thinks I’m playing a part. For once in my life, I’m not acting.

The Fake Love Experiment is a closed-door celebrity romantic comedy featuring a brilliant heroine, a secretly lovesick movie star, fake dating, forced proximity, and plenty of swoon-worthy moments. This is the first book in my second series, Celebrity Love in Sweetwater Beach.

Katie Talbot writes sweet, witty romantic comedies featuring smart, sassy heroines and the larger-than-life men who fall for them. Her debut five-book series, Celebrity Love in New Orleans, is set in the quirky, romantic city she now calls home. Her second series, Celebrity Love in Sweetwater Beach, is set in a fictitious town in the Florida Gulf Coast, inspired by family trips taken over the last couple of decades.

Originally from the Midwest, Katie fell in love with the Big Easy’s music, food, and charm, and never looked back. She lives in New Orleans with her husband and their three children.