Stranger Things Have Happened
Can fake dating lead to real love? In Kasie West's next sexy adult romcom two people must decide where the lie ends and the chemistry begins.
Sutton knows she needs therapy. After all, she’s managing her newly opened restaurant remotely while taking care of her ungrateful sick mother. Plus, her boyfriend of two years just dumped her over the phone. But does therapy with a handsome stranger, who she has to pretend to be engaged to, in order to help her friend’s struggling relationship count? Probably not. Then why did she just agree to go? Because she’s had a few too many drinks? Because this stranger, Elijah, is smug and annoying and really, really handsome? Because she feels guilty that she abandoned her best friend, Tara, after high school and this might just make up for it? Whatever the reason, she has committed to this unhinged plan.
What the hell is Sutton doing?
Helping Tara prove a point: a good therapist can tell the difference between real love and fake love. That’s what she’s doing. But as they attend their sessions, Sutton and Elijah only seem to be proving one thing—the lines between pretend desire and real desire are very blurry. This true connection forming between them is threatening to unravel everything Sutton thought she knew about family, friendship, and her own heart.
- Pages
- 352
- First published
- April 14, 2026
- Language
- English
- Edition
- Ebook
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Reviews
Finished April 21, 2026
thanks to st martin's press for this free eARC the concept of strangers in couples therapy is everything you need to know to add this to your tbr- it's so much messier (affectionate) than i expected! note: there's a really rough (toxic) mother/daughter relationship that can be hard to read if you also have a mom who is a bitch, as well as abandonment by a parent- i wish these has been listed as triggers in the ARC i recieved, hopefully they were added to the final copy.
