Evie is a brilliant neuroscientist whose career has gone up in flames. Dominic is an arrogant Hollywood heartthrob secretly head over heels for his assistant.

EVIE: I’d rather not talk about what happened to my promising career. I was supposed to spend my life studying brilliant minds. Instead, I spend my days managing an enormous ego.

That ego belongs to Dominic Ward, Hollywood’s most demanding—and annoyingly flirtatious—movie star.

When I need a date for my sister’s wedding in my hometown of Sweetwater Beach, Dominic volunteers. My hypothesis? Five days pretending to date my insufferable boss will be a disaster. Except he starts making my heart race and my brain malfunction.

I’m a neuroscientist. I understand the science behind attraction. I just refuse to believe it applies to me.

DOMINIC: Evie didn’t want to work for me. I hired her anyway because she’s brilliant, ridiculously competent, and the only person in Hollywood who tells me exactly what she thinks. Usually at considerable length.

She can explain the most complicated workings of the human brain, but somehow she hasn’t figured out that I’m crazy about her.

Five days pretending to be her boyfriend might be my only chance to make her fall in love with me.

She thinks I’m playing a part. For once in my life, I’m not acting.

The Fake Love Experiment is a closed-door celebrity romantic comedy featuring a brilliant heroine, a secretly lovesick movie star, fake dating, forced proximity, and plenty of swoon-worthy moments.