Much Obliged

Lights! Camera! Fake Fiancé!

Breakfast TV producer Petey Boy Topham dreams of producing the reality shows he loves to watch. When he finally lands a job on The Love Manor-a Regency-inspired dating show filmed at an actual country house-it's his golden ticket to his career ambitions. If he can impress his new boss, she might give him his own show.

William Winters - known to the tabloids as the "Bisexual Baron Buckford" - is nothing like his headlines. This rugby-playing, fantasy-novel-hoarding aristocrat inherited seventy-eight rooms, millions in debt, and precisely one devoted eccentric butler. Letting the cameras in is his last chance to save the estate.

When the contestants discover there's a real baron on the premises and abandon the format entirely to pursue him, there's only one way to save the show: a fake engagement between producer and baron. Sharing the manor's romantic folly, cocky Londoner Petey and shy, bookish William discover the most dangerous thing about a desperate lie: how quickly it starts feeling true. And then it leaks to the press.

Inside this book you'll find:
Fake dating → fake engagement → very real panicGrumpy/sunshinePosh/working-classReality TV chaos behind the scenesOne iconic butler, a gloriously eccentric mother and an unforgettable executive producerThe most laugh-out-loud entry in the series (according to readers).
Good to know:
Closed-door romanceDual point of viewDemisexual representation written with careGuaranteed happily ever after (even the manor survives relatively unscathed).
For fans of Boyfriend Material, The Charm Offensive and Alexis Hall's The Winner Bakes All series.

Much Obliged is Book 3 of the Brent Boys series and reads completely standalone (but there are some recurring characters from the other books).