Special Edition - The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun
We had the great pleasure of sitting down with Alison Cochrun to talk about her very buzzy book, The Charm Offensive.\xa0 If you'd like to purchase a copy, please consider buying from Alison's local independent\xa0bookstore, Vintage Books!\xa0\xa0At this time there are signed copies available!
Dev Deshpande has always believed in fairy tales. So it\u2019s no wonder then that he\u2019s spent his career crafting them on the long-running reality dating show Ever After. As the most successful producer in the franchise\u2019s history, Dev always scripts the perfect love story for his contestants, even as his own love life crashes and burns. But then the show casts disgraced tech wunderkind Charlie Winshaw as its star.
Charlie is far from the romantic Prince Charming Ever After expects. He doesn\u2019t believe in true love, and only agreed to the show as a last-ditch effort to rehabilitate his image. In front of the cameras, he\u2019s a stiff, anxious mess with no idea how to date twenty women on national television. Behind the scenes, he\u2019s cold, awkward, and emotionally closed-off.
As Dev fights to get Charlie to connect with the contestants on a whirlwind, worldwide tour, they begin to open up to each other, and Charlie realizes he has better chemistry with Dev than with any of his female co-stars. But even reality TV has a script, and in order to find to happily ever after, they\u2019ll have to reconsider whose love story gets told.