Plus One In The Dales
(2026)(The third book in the Yorkshire Hearts Club series)
A novel by Claire Shaw
Tess Hargreaves has two problems:
1. Her ex is going to her cousin’s Valentine’s Day wedding.
2. Her mother has started matchmaking via text like she’s running a raffle.
Max Wright, resident numbers man and reluctant Best Man, has one:
His ex will be at the same wedding with her new fiancé and he’s got the emotional range of a spreadsheet.
A coffee collision on Briggate turns into a pact: they'''ll be each other’s Valentine’s plus-one for the wedding at Thornbeck Hall, a grand country estate in the Yorkshire Dales.
It’s simple, fake it through the hen and stag chaos, the rehearsal dinner, and the world’s most aggressively romantic seating plan. No catching feelings. No real kisses… unless absolutely necessary for realism.
But between nosy aunties, a belligerent peacock, and a snow-dusted estate straight out of a romcom, pretending gets complicated.
Because sometimes the fakest thing you can do… is pretend you’re not falling in love.
Genre: Literary Fiction
1. Her ex is going to her cousin’s Valentine’s Day wedding.
2. Her mother has started matchmaking via text like she’s running a raffle.
Max Wright, resident numbers man and reluctant Best Man, has one:
His ex will be at the same wedding with her new fiancé and he’s got the emotional range of a spreadsheet.
A coffee collision on Briggate turns into a pact: they'''ll be each other’s Valentine’s plus-one for the wedding at Thornbeck Hall, a grand country estate in the Yorkshire Dales.
It’s simple, fake it through the hen and stag chaos, the rehearsal dinner, and the world’s most aggressively romantic seating plan. No catching feelings. No real kisses… unless absolutely necessary for realism.
But between nosy aunties, a belligerent peacock, and a snow-dusted estate straight out of a romcom, pretending gets complicated.
Because sometimes the fakest thing you can do… is pretend you’re not falling in love.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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