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Indie Next March 2026 Pick • Beach Read 2026 • Cat Sebastian's Long-Awaited Contemporary Romance Debut

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, and get away from Charlie. His only problem: people might assume he was pushed off the show for being impossible to work with. So he reluctantly agrees to stage a very public friendship during the short time before he moves.

When Charlie has to leave town for a family emergency, Simon comes along. Their road trip brings Simon to places he'd never have willingly chosen — 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. And 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 them can't really amount to anything... right?

Tropes: Enemies to Lovers • Opposites Attract • Forced Proximity • Slow Burn

📖 Paperback | 384 pages