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The Charm Offensive

by Alison Cochrun Publisher: ATRIA

Romance behind the reality-show cameras

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Awards & Recognition

  • Editorial selection

    A Harper’s Bazaar Best Book Pick

    Named a Best Book Pick by Harper's Bazaar.

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Romance behind the reality-show cameras

Set within the production of a televised dating competition, the novel pairs Dev, a producer who specializes in shaping contestants’ love stories, with Charlie, a tech founder appearing on the show to repair his public image. The contrast between the romance constructed for the cameras and the connection developing behind the scenes gives the story its central tension. As the show’s format pushes Charlie toward a conventional match, his growing bond with Dev raises questions about who gets to define a happy ending—and whose story the cameras are meant to tell.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers who enjoy contemporary romantic comedies involving a behind-the-scenes workplace romance.
  • Readers interested in reality dating shows and the contrast between public performance and private connection.
  • Readers seeking a romance centered on two male leads.

Themes

Reality television and image-makingPublic performance versus private connectionLove and romantic expectationsHappy endings and whose stories get told

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Book overview

A BEST BOOK PICK BY * HARPER'S BAZAAR * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY "Will sweep you off your feet." --PopSugar In this witty and heartwarming romantic comedy--for fans of Red, White & Royal Blue and Heated Rivalry--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 twenty 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.
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