My Big Fat Fake Marriage

Author: Charlotte Stein Title: My Big Fat Fake Marriage Publisher:  St. Martin's Griffin Date Published: 03/11/2025

Read Dates: 02/05/2025- 02/07/2025
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

 📖 I received a gifted e-book ARC. The following is my honest review✍🏻

My Big Fat Fake Marriage is a single POV fake relationship romance. Connie, an aspiring author, distrusts so-called “nice guys” and that extends to her always cheerful, bow-tie wearing, pie baking neighbor, Beck. But when she learns his secret, that a workplace bully has prompted him to lie about being married, she can’t help but go along with his ruse. It’s not like she’s going to catch real feelings, after all!

This was both the silliest and horniest book I’ve read in a while, it was absolutely delightfully fun. I knew I liked Charlotte Stein after When Grumpy Met Sunshine but this just cemented her as an “if she writes it, I need to read it” author!

Connie has always distrusted nice guys. In her experience, they’re just waiting to reveal some horrible secret. And then she meets big, adorable, Henry Samuel Beckett—editor extraordinaire, lover of bow ties, sweet and so cheery she struggles to believe he’s real.

Until Henry Samuel Beckett—or Beck, as he’s known to most—tells her the secret underneath his sunny surface: He’s been single all his life. But in a moment of panic, he’s told everyone at his publishing house that he’s married. And when Connie, an aspiring writer herself, can’t help defending him, she ends up being the fake wife he doesn’t actually have.

When they head off on a writing retreat, surrounded by people convinced this must be a ruse, both of them can't help but agree. Until they share their first kiss, their first touch, their first time in only one bed. Side by side, every night, as the simmering tension builds…Connie starts to wonder if this might be real after all.