While You Were Seething

By Charlotte Stein

The road to love is bumpy in Charlotte Stein's WHILE YOU WERE SEETHING-- a sexy and heartwarming contemporary romance filled with fake dating hijinks, delicious forced proximity, and top tier banter.

Daisy Emmett has been enemies with famous romance author Caleb Miller since they were in college together, and time hasn't lessened their mutual loathing. So when she agrees to manoeuvre him through a PR disaster of his own making, she knows it's not going to be easy. She just doesn't realise how not easy until they somehow end up trapped in the same truck, on an endless road trip from one book tour stop to another, bantering and butting heads along the way.

Then, even more horrifying: people appear to be mistaking her for the woman he dedicates all his books to. The love of his life, his adored beloved--the one who doesn't actually exist. Now they're trapped into pretending she does and that Daisy is her, each fake kiss and phoney embrace ratcheting up the tension to the point where enemies suddenly seems a lot closer to lovers than either of them would like.

Or so they're telling themselves.

But sometimes it's hard to be sure, when seething turns into something so much more...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250867991
• ISBN13: 9781250867995
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

While You Were Seething

Daisy Emmett and Caleb Miller met at college. And they truly hated each other. Years later, Miller is now a famous romance author that apparently doesn't believe in love. And here comes Emmett, back in the US to convince Miller to go on his book tour, convince people that he actually believes in love, while bringing along his muse, a hired fake girlfriend. But it seems like everyone thinks Miller's muse and girlfriend is Emmett. The premise is the reason why I want to read this book. I love me some fake dating trope, but not much on enemies to lovers trope. And this book reminded me why I dislike the latter. The first half was a struggle for me. Emmett and Miller's banter lost me because I don't even know if you can call it banter. The writing was as if they're trying to explain an inside joke to me and I still don't understand it. They didn't even feel like enemies, more like friends that are stubborn and petty and don't want to makeup. When they finally get to the "to-lovers" part of enemies to lovers, it finally started to make sense but I'm not fond of how we got there. What I do like about this book is why the spice matters. Yes, the book is spicy. But it was not put in there just to be spicy. I like the overall message that the book wants to convey. And I did like the road trip setting. Overall, it was okay. I'm not gonna lie, I was relieved when I finished it because it took me so long to get into it. But it did have numerous plus points for what the book wants to share. * I received an eARC of this book