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  • Published: 13 February 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529928853
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400
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The Launch Date





A swoony and page-turning second-chance romcom that puts a unique twist on fake dating!

To get her dream job, she’ll have to date her worst nightmare . . .

Grace Hastings is in a rut. Her career is stagnating, her boss is a leech, and she feels like a fraud working for Fate, a dating app whose ethos she no longer believes in. And don’t even get her started on the state of her love life.

So when the company’s CEO offers her an opportunity for a big promotion and the chance to work on the launch of a dating app that she actually cares about, Grace can’t believe her luck.

That is, until she discovers that she must test drive a series of ‘first dates’ with her competition for the job: notorious socialite playboy and Grace’s biggest work rival, Eric Bancroft.

But Grace refuses to give up her dream job because of a man. And besides, how romantic can a handful of fake dates with your biggest rival really be?

There’s absolutely no way it’s an office romance waiting to happen.

  • Published: 13 February 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529928853
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400
Categories:

Praise for The Launch Date

Flirty and full of heart, Annabelle Slator’s debut is a dream date in book form. With a deeply relatable heroine who recovers her faith in romance amid enemies-to-lovers tension and workplace hijinks, The Launch Date has everything

Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka, authors of The Roughest Draft

A sensational debut rom-com has landed! This debut is everything you could want: a fabulously funny and relatable leading lady and a swoon-worthy man with just the right amount of brood. Prepare to fall in love with Eric and Grace as they battle it out for a promotion and try very hard not to fall in love. The Launch Date is a witty, sparkly, and hilarious book for fans of The Hating Game. Prepare to put Annabelle Slator on auto-buy

Lizzy Dent, author of THE SUMMER JOB

Flirty and full of heart, Annabelle Slator’s debut is a dream date in book form

Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka, authors of The Roughest Draft

A witty, sparkly, and hilarious book for fans of The Hating Game. Prepare to put Annabelle Slator on auto-buy

Lizzy Dent, author of THE SUMMER JOB

The Launch Date is a witty, banter-filled romance with palpable tension and heaps of charm, a workplace romance perfect for weekend bingeing!

Nadia El-Fassi, author of Best Hex Ever

The Launch Date is what rom-com dreams are made of! With a swoony hero and relatable heroine, the chemistry between the two is magical and sexy. I adored this phenomenal debut!

Katie Holt, author of Not in My Book

A gorgeous, rivals to lovers workplace romcom...the perfect blend of sweet and sexy

Cressida McLaughlin

The Launch Date was hilarious and I couldn’t put it down . . . I was swooning for Eric and rooting for him and Grace to reconcile their friendship and end up together

Donna Marchetti, author of Hate Mail

A loveable page-turner

Chat

Enemies-to-lovers fans, this one's for you

Cosmopolitan

A sweet story

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