My Big Fat Fake Marriage: A spicy, hilarious and heartwarming rom-com

Stuck together on a writing retreat, a fake marriage goes awry when two people fall in love for real! From the author of When Grumpy Met Sunshine, Charlotte Stein's My Big Fat Fake Marriage is a sexy, laugh-out-loud romcom.

Connie Evans has always distrusted nice guys. In her experience, they’re just waiting to reveal some horrible secret. And then she meets big, adorable Henry Samuel Beckett: sweet, a lover of bow ties and so cheery that Connie struggles to believe he’s real.

Until Beck – as he’s known to most – tells Connie the secret beneath his sunny surface. He’s been single all his life, but somehow seems to have told everyone he works with that he’s married. And, when Connie can’t help but defend him, she ends up being the wife he doesn’t have.

And now they’re on a writing retreat together, surrounded by people convinced they can’t be for real, with both of them sure that those people are right. Until they have to share their first kiss, their first touch, their first time in only one bed. Side by side, every night, as the simmering tension builds . . .

Something has to give. Could it be her heart?

Readers love My Big Fat Fake Marriage . . .

‘My heart. I have no words. Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. I laughed, I smiled, I cried’

‘So funny from start to ending’

‘Not only hot but beautiful’

‘Beck is this nerdy, awkward cinnamon roll of an addiction that I could not get enough of’

‘This book had me giggling, swooning, and feeling ALL the emotions. And yes, the spice? It delivers’

© 2025 Pan (Audiobook): 9781035039005

Release date

Audiobook: 11 March 2025