Publisher: Avon (March 3rd, 2026)
Genre: Contemporary Romance (MM)
Cat Sebastian’s long-awaited foray into contemporary romance! A witty, emotional, and deliciously slow burn enemies-to-lovers romance between two costars on a popular sci-fi television series.
Simon and Charlie, actors on a long-running sci-fi show, can’t stand one another. Charlie is impetuous, outgoing, and basically feral, and Simon thinks he should have stayed in reality television where he belongs. They’ve spent the better part of a decade quarreling over the spotlight and pretty much everything else, and everybody in the industry knows it. Now that Simon’s contract is finally done, he can move to New York, start fresh with work he actually likes, and get away from Charlie.
Simon’s only problem is that people might assume he’s been pushed off the show due to being impossible to work with. And he is kind of difficult to work with. He doesn’t get along with people—unlike Charlie, who somehow tricked everyone on the show into adoring him despite some outrageously bad on-set behavior during the show’s first season. Simon would rather never have to see Charlie again, but reluctantly agrees to stage a very public friendship during the short time before he moves. When Charlie has to leave town to deal with a family emergency, this means Simon comes along. Their road trip brings Simon to places he would never have willingly chosen to visit—and he finds he’s actually not having a terrible time.
The more he gets to know Charlie, the more Simon suspects he’s underestimated his former coworker. Simon also realizes that after seven years, Charlie might know him better than anyone ever has. Even stranger, Charlie seems to be starting to actually like him, despite knowing him so well. Still, Simon is about to move three thousand miles away, so whatever’s starting between him and Charlie can’t really amount to anything... right?
Tropes:
Enemies to Lovers
Opposites Attract
Forced Proximity
Slow Burn
I love this silver-screen-set romance, and I think it should make it onto the silver screen sometime soon! So, Simon and Charlie are these two actors, co-stars on a super popular sci-fi show. They've been working together for like, seven years, and for every single moment of that time have absolutely HATED each other. I mean, just loathed each other. But now Simon's contract is up, and he gets to get out of there, move to New York, and do work that he's actually interested in doing with anyone but Charlie. The problem is, people think Simon's difficult to work with, and it's kinda true. So Simon and Charlie agree to stage a public friendship to make it seem less, y'know, tense, between them. Then, of course, Charlie has a family emergency, which means, guess what? Road trip time! And over the course of this road trip, not only do the two of them bond more than they have in seven years, they kinda start falling in love. But nothing can happen between them, right?
This romance was really cute and a great vibe from start to finish. The story was really slice-of-life in the cutest way possible and reading about these two dorks falling in love with each other will just put a smile on your face. Plus, the chemistry, and the vibes, and just how into each other these two chars are but also how stuck-in-their-head they are and so they have to keep saying it without actually saying it and AHH! This was such a fun ride.
Thanks so much to Avon and NetGalley for the E-ARC!
5 STARS!
Until Next Time,
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