While You Were Seething: A Novel

There's nothing worse than being trapped in a truck with someone you despise — unless that someone is the infuriatingly charming romance novelist you've loathed since college, and the entire country suddenly thinks you're the love of his life.

Daisy Emmett and Caleb Miller have perfected the art of mutual hatred. So when Caleb's career implodes in a spectacular PR disaster, Daisy agreeing to help him seems like a temporary inconvenience at best. She'll assist, he'll recover, and they'll go back to pretending the other doesn't exist. Simple. Except nothing about a grueling cross-country book tour crammed inside a pickup truck with your sworn enemy is ever simple.

The real chaos begins when fans start connecting the dots between Daisy and the mysterious woman Caleb has secretly dedicated every one of his bestselling romance novels to. Rather than shatter the illusion — and Caleb's carefully rebuilt reputation — they make a decision that will either save everything or ruin them both: fake dating, full commitment, no backing out.

What starts as staged hand-holding and manufactured longing gazes begins feeling dangerously real with every mile marker they pass. Charlotte Stein delivers a sharp, witty new adult romance packed with delicious banter, slow-burn tension, and two people determined to hate each other right up until the moment they absolutely cannot anymore.

The only question is whether love was hiding in plain sight all along — or if it's been written there from the very beginning.