While You Were Seething: A Novel

Charlotte Stein

Apr 2026 · Sold by St. Martin's Griffin

About this ebook

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...

Ratings and reviews

While I definitely felt the connection between the characters from the start, it took them a little longer to win me over. They had great banter between them, and the topes, oh the tropes just kept rolling, and they knew and acknowledged them. The fun moments, truly fun moments, were wonderful, while some seemingly fun moments were tinged with sadness. They got there, they figured it all out, and they finally got the HEA that had been on hold for them <3

Spicy, snarky, and so much fun, Daisy and Caleb's story was a rollicking good time. It is also at times really cute. Definitely had me laughing and left me with a lighter heart.

About the author

CHARLOTTE STEIN is the RT nominated author of over fifty short stories, novellas and novels, including When Grumpy Met Sunshine, a book The New York Times called “a triumph”. When not writing deeply emotional and intensely sexy books, she can be found eating jelly turtles, getting way too excited over a million movies and TV shows, and occasionally lusting after moustaches. She lives in Leeds with her family.