How to Kidnap a Fake Date

Maggie Hamilton is twenty-nine and the disappointment of a family of professional killers: her kill count is zero. Her father has given her a deadline. She must marry her volatile ex and take over the family business, and Maggie panics.

Her solution is the nearest available body. Roman Ellis, her broad-shouldered and bad-tempered neighbour, wants nothing to do with her, which does not stop her tying him up in her passenger seat. She drives him to the Scottish Highlands for her father's second wedding and introduces him as her devoted long-term boyfriend.

The plan needs one week of acting. Maggie has to stay alive, avoid murdering anyone, and keep a house full of trained killers from realising that her boyfriend is a hostage. Roman has no intention of making any of it easy.

This is a dark romantic comedy built on fake dating and forced proximity, with a mafia-adjacent family at its centre. The humour is pitch black, the chaos is played for laughs, and the romance is spicy. Menace stays in the background. It is the first book in the Killer Kin series.