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Much Obliged: A British Fake-Dating Gay Romantic Comedy - a Reality Show, a Broke Baron & One Very Real Lie
Paperback
Series: The Brent Boys, Book 3
RomanceGeneral GLBTQIA Fiction
ISBN13: 9781739550981
Publisher: Proud Marlee Press
Published: Mar 5 2026
Pages: 372
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.83 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Lights! Camera! Fake Fiancé!
Breakfast TV producer Petey Boy Topham dreams of producing the reality shows he loves to watch. When he finally lands a job on The Love Manor-a Regency-inspired dating show filmed at an actual country house-it's his golden ticket to his career ambitions. If he can impress his new boss, she might give him his own show.
William Winters - known to the tabloids as the Bisexual Baron Buckford - is nothing like his headlines. This rugby-playing, fantasy-novel-hoarding aristocrat inherited seventy-eight rooms, millions in debt, and precisely one devoted eccentric butler. Letting the cameras in is his last chance to save the estate.
When the contestants discover there's a real baron on the premises and abandon the format entirely to pursue him, there's only one way to save the show: a fake engagement between producer and baron. Sharing the manor's romantic folly, cocky Londoner Petey and shy, bookish William discover the most dangerous thing about a desperate lie: how quickly it starts feeling true. And then it leaks to the press.
Inside this book you'll find:- Fake dating → fake engagement → very real panic
- Grumpy/sunshine
- Posh/working-class
- Reality TV chaos behind the scenes
- One iconic butler, a gloriously eccentric mother and an unforgettable executive producer
- The most laugh-out-loud entry in the series (according to readers).
- Closed-door romance
- Dual point of view
- Demisexual representation written with care
- Guaranteed happily ever after (even the manor survives relatively unscathed).
For fans of Boyfriend Material, The Charm Offensive and Alexis Hall's The Winner Bakes All series.
Much Obliged is Book 3 of the Brent Boys series and reads completely standalone (but there are some recurring characters from the other books).
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