Fake-Dating My Ex's Rival
(2026)(The third book in the Moonstruck Cove series)
A novel by Miranda P Charles
"I agreed to fake-date Colt Quinn to put my ex in his place. Falling for the man who's too big for Moonstruck Cove? That was never part of the deal."
EMORY
Moonstruck Cove will always be my home. After I was dumped on my wedding day, this town helped me put myself back together.
Now, my ex is back, branded as the town's returning local hero on a TV renovation show. On his arm is his new girlfriend—who just happens to be Colt's ex.
Colt Quinn. TV star, my best friend's future brother-in-law, and the man I've been quietly, inconveniently crushing on. He needs a fake girlfriend for the show.
I know exactly why I said yes. I just don't know how to stop it from meaning more than it should.
Because I've already been burned by a man who chose ambition over love.
And I can't risk being second to Colt's career.
COLT
The show was supposed to fix everything. One season of Built by Two, and I could silence every critic calling me a fraud.
Then my girlfriend and I call it quits, and suddenly I can't join a show that requires romantic partners as contestants.
I wasn't expecting Emory to volunteer, and I wasn't expecting to be so glad she did.
She's warm, funny, stubborn and brave, and standing next to her while our exes smirk from across the competition line feels a lot less like strategy and a lot more like something I don't have a name for yet.
Then I have to move in with her during filming to keep up our pretence, and things become even more complicated. Somewhere between sawdust and kisses for the camera, fake starts feeling real.
But my life isn't in Moonstruck Cove, and hers will never be anywhere else.
Now, I'm facing the one thing I never planned for—losing the only woman who's ever made me want something more.
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Fake-Dating My Ex's Rival is Book 3 of the Moonstruck Cove series—where famous men come home... and stay. It can be read as a standalone.
Tropes:
EMORY
Moonstruck Cove will always be my home. After I was dumped on my wedding day, this town helped me put myself back together.
Now, my ex is back, branded as the town's returning local hero on a TV renovation show. On his arm is his new girlfriend—who just happens to be Colt's ex.
Colt Quinn. TV star, my best friend's future brother-in-law, and the man I've been quietly, inconveniently crushing on. He needs a fake girlfriend for the show.
I know exactly why I said yes. I just don't know how to stop it from meaning more than it should.
Because I've already been burned by a man who chose ambition over love.
And I can't risk being second to Colt's career.
COLT
The show was supposed to fix everything. One season of Built by Two, and I could silence every critic calling me a fraud.
Then my girlfriend and I call it quits, and suddenly I can't join a show that requires romantic partners as contestants.
I wasn't expecting Emory to volunteer, and I wasn't expecting to be so glad she did.
She's warm, funny, stubborn and brave, and standing next to her while our exes smirk from across the competition line feels a lot less like strategy and a lot more like something I don't have a name for yet.
Then I have to move in with her during filming to keep up our pretence, and things become even more complicated. Somewhere between sawdust and kisses for the camera, fake starts feeling real.
But my life isn't in Moonstruck Cove, and hers will never be anywhere else.
Now, I'm facing the one thing I never planned for—losing the only woman who's ever made me want something more.
***
Fake-Dating My Ex's Rival is Book 3 of the Moonstruck Cove series—where famous men come home... and stay. It can be read as a standalone.
Tropes:
- Fake dating
Ex's rival
Small-town baker & TV star hero
Forced proximity
One bed only
Battle of the exes
Dual POV
Steamy open-door
Feel-good HEA
Australian setting
Genre: Romance