Description

When your worst enemy becomes your fake boyfriend on national TV

Bodie Larkin has been flipping perfect eggs at Duluth’s Skylark Diner for eight years—until food influencer Fletcher Yao’s brutal one-star review nearly killed his business. Now Bodie’s got six weeks to win fifty thousand dollars on the reality show Cooked with Love, or lose everything he’s built.

Fletcher Yao’s career is circling the drain thanks to the backlash from his Skylark review. The cooking competition was supposed to be his redemption arc—except he arrives to find Bodie waiting as his mystery boyfriend, both of them victims of their meddling customers’ matchmaking scheme.

Fake the relationship for six episodes or face the wrath of razor-sharp host Ramona Castille, who destroys fraudulent couples for sport. Sharing a trailer smaller than Bodie’s kitchen, they’re forced to sell their chemistry to twenty million viewers while surviving blindfolded feeding challenges and couple’s cooking contests.

But somewhere between the cameras and the competition, their fake smiles start feeling real. The problem? Bodie’s spent years believing good things don’t last, while Fletcher’s forgotten who he is beneath the performance. And when the show’s over, one of them will have to choose between everything they’ve worked for and the love they never saw coming.

This MM Reality-TV Foodie Romcom romance includes:

• Fake dating with real consequences
• Grumpy cook meets sunshine influencer
• Enemies to lovers with extra heat
• Only one tiny trailer for two big personalities
• Reality TV drama with genuine heart

Sweet heat — perfect for fans of Eli Easton, KJ Charles, and TJ Alexander.

How This Manuscript Was Created

This first draft has been generated and refined through a 7-pass professional editing pipeline:

1. First Draft — chapter-by-chapter writing using the codex and outline
2. Developmental Assessment — whole-manuscript review for plot, structure, character arcs, pacing
3. Apply Dev Notes — per-chapter revision addressing the developmental review
4. Line Edit — sentence-level prose, dialogue, and voice polish per chapter
5. Continuity Audit — full-manuscript consistency check (names, timeline, codex alignment)
6. Apply Continuity Fixes — per-chapter corrections from the audit
7. Proofread — final per-chapter polish for typos, grammar, and lingering issues

Manuscript Details

• Word Count: 28,204 words
• Length Category: Novella (17500-40000 words)
• Chapters: 13
• Genre: Romcom
• Subgenre: MM Reality-TV Foodie Romcom
• Heat Level: Sweet
• Tone: Light/Funny
• POV: Single POV, 1st Person, Present tense
• Tropes: Fake dating, grumpy/sunshine, forced proximity, rivals to lovers, only one trailer
• Hero: Bodie
• Heroine: Fletcher