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Fake Dating the Italian Heir
Find your perfect book boyfriend in the latest romance by Ally Blake, a fake dating, enemies-to-lovers romance!
A ruse too tempting for words!
Jilted the week before her wedding, romance bookstore owner Laila has given up on all men — except book boyfriends! That includes town heartthrob Nico — her infuriating landlord. Yet, when he needs a fake date, Laila is the one he calls...precisely because she won’t accidentally fall for him. She’ll help if he stops questioning her business decisions. It’s the perfect on-paper pretence. But as she gets to know the real Nico, it becomes harder to separate truth from fiction...
Mills & Boon Forever — Be swept away by glamorous and heartfelt love stories.
A ruse too tempting for words!
Jilted the week before her wedding, romance bookstore owner Laila has given up on all men — except book boyfriends! That includes town heartthrob Nico — her infuriating landlord. Yet, when he needs a fake date, Laila is the one he calls...precisely because she won’t accidentally fall for him. She’ll help if he stops questioning her business decisions. It’s the perfect on-paper pretence. But as she gets to know the real Nico, it becomes harder to separate truth from fiction...
Mills & Boon Forever — Be swept away by glamorous and heartfelt love stories.
256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published November 25, 2025
About the author
Ally Blake
374 books224 followersAustralian romance author Ally Blake loves reading and strong coffee, porch swings and dappled sunshine, sparkly notebooks and soft, dark pencils.
She also adores writing love stories. Having sold over four million copies of her Harlequin Mills and Boon novels worldwide, she is living her dream.
Alongside one husband, three gloriously rambunctious kids, and too many animal companions to count, Ally lives and writes in the leafy western suburbs of Brisbane.
Find out more about Ally’s books at www.allyblake.com.
She also adores writing love stories. Having sold over four million copies of her Harlequin Mills and Boon novels worldwide, she is living her dream.
Alongside one husband, three gloriously rambunctious kids, and too many animal companions to count, Ally lives and writes in the leafy western suburbs of Brisbane.
Find out more about Ally’s books at www.allyblake.com.
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Did Not Finish
December 29, 2025The author spends 43% of this book setting up the small town world-building, the internal baggage of both hero and heroine, and their Love/Hate Fight Flirting dynamic only to then shoehorn in a trip to another continent to introduce more secondary characters and a fake dating trope. It's unnecessary and hit my current pet peeve of the genre distilling their marketing down to tropes because Influencers, BookTok and publishers who have no clue what they're doing. I'm now annoyed and recognize I can't give this story a fair shake, so moving on.
April 28, 2026
2.5 stars 🌟
I could not get into this story. I found it kind of boring.
I could not get into this story. I found it kind of boring.
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November 2, 2025Contemporary Romance, Women's Fiction, Romance
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April 25, 2026
Ally Blake makes me want to be a writer. She’s so good at what she does. I believe wholeheartedly, if you want to understand ‘author’s voice’ she is a must read.
While this book is set during the colder seasons, Ally’s books make perfect spring reads in my opinion. Her storytelling and writing style are always just what I this season.
I adored Nico and Laila’s romance. They are very back and forth bantering, fight flirting with one another but it is never nasty. Laila is the town’s romance bookshop owner and I loved all the romance novel references and scenes in the bookshop. It turns into fake dating for a bit which was fun to read. I just love Ally’s heroines. They truly feel like one of the girls and I love seeing them on their heroine’s journey and finding love and community in the end. This one hit all the buttons for me.
While this book is set during the colder seasons, Ally’s books make perfect spring reads in my opinion. Her storytelling and writing style are always just what I this season.
I adored Nico and Laila’s romance. They are very back and forth bantering, fight flirting with one another but it is never nasty. Laila is the town’s romance bookshop owner and I loved all the romance novel references and scenes in the bookshop. It turns into fake dating for a bit which was fun to read. I just love Ally’s heroines. They truly feel like one of the girls and I love seeing them on their heroine’s journey and finding love and community in the end. This one hit all the buttons for me.
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