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How to Kidnap a Fake Date

A BRAND NEW dark romantic comedy with kidnapping, fake dating, and spicy chemistry from Effie Campbell for 2026

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How to Kidnap a Fake Date

By: Effie Campbell
Narrated by: Helen Farrell, William Macleod
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It’s going to be a killer of a good time…

Sweet Maggie Hamilton comes from a long line of people paid to professionally end lives.

Unfortunately, Maggie is a family failure.

Age? Twenty-nine. Kill count? A deeply embarrassing zero.

So when her father decides to marry her off to her psychotic ex at thirty to help her take over the family business, Maggie hatches a plan for the world’s worst fake relationship to buy some time.

Which is where broad-shouldered, bad-tempered, offensively attractive Roman Ellis comes in. Maggie’s neighbour, who is about as interested in her as he is in a slow, painful death.

But Maggie isn’t offering him a choice. With Roman tied to the passenger seat, she’s taking him as her plus one to her father’s second wedding in the Highlands.

All Maggie has to do is survive the week without dying, murdering anyone or letting anyone in a house of professional killers know that her serious long-term boyfriend is actually her hostage.

Unfortunately for her, Roman isn’t going to make it that easy.

Readers LOVE Effie Campbell:

‘Funny, sweet, bloody, and spicy. The most bizarrely perfect combo!!’ Reader Review

‘One of my favourite reads. The spice was incredible and Roman is SO hot!’ Reader Review

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A fun, laugh out loud story which had me hooked from the first chapter. Can’t wait to see what’s in store for Maggie and Roman next. And the gran! I love her!!!! 😍

Such a great pairing!

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This book come up as recommended so I thought I would give it a try. I actually quite enjoyed it. The female narrator was great, however the male narrator made it very difficult for me to listen, he sounded way too old for the character and spoke in a creepy robotic style. It would’ve been better if it was only read by the female narrator.

Something different for me.

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loved every single thing about this book! the audio, the plot, the characters, I cant wait for book 2 !

loved it

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I went into this excited for a fun romcom, and left with more questions than answers, plot lines that went nowhere and "humourous" one liners that made me put my headphones away, because they felt like crass for the sake of crassness, and not for laughs. The FMC describing herself as "wetter than an otters pocket" is NOT it.

Granny was the highlight

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