Dress? £200. Shoes? £60. The perfect date? Priceless... Charlie Black has found the one. And this time it’s for real. Not like the last time. Or the time before that. Or the time before that… And now she’s going to parade the one in front of everyone at her sister’s upcoming wedding. She wants to prove that her new girlfriend Lucy is special. She’s going to show everyone she can make it work. Especially her judgmental sister Maddie, Bride-Zilla herself. But a few weeks before the wedding, Charlie gets dumped. Again. And she can’t face the humiliation of going to Maddie’s wedding stag. Not after loudly and repeatedly telling her family that this one is different. She needs a date to the wedding and fast. Maybe she could get someone to go with her, but how the hell is she supposed to convince anyone to pretend to be Lucy, her very serious girlfriend of four months? It’s too humiliating. But the wedding creeps closer and closer, with no obvious solution in sight. Then Charlie happens across a website. ‘Rent-a-Date. It's just the thing Charlie needs to save her from the embarrassment of admitting that her sister was right again. That’s one wedding gift Charlie refuses to give her. So after booking herself a date from the company, she’s guaranteed that a hot woman will show up to the wedding with enough knowledge to pretend to be the real Lucy, at least for the length of the big day. But when Charlie turns up at the church, her date has a surprise in store…

Hot mess Charlie and perfectionist Amy met in a whirlwind of intense romance and now they’re married and settled. Or are they? Amid the passion of newly married life, they suddenly find themselves face to face with one of the biggest obstacles any couple can face… Children. Do they want to be parents? Can they be? And if not, what next? Amy and Charlie’s love finds itself tested as the world throws challenges at them that include fertility questions, interfering parents and a border terrier with an endless supply of urine. In the long-awaited sequel to her hit novel, The Plus One, Natasha West gives us the next chapter of the story that gave everyone the serious feels. Romance, comedy and drama blend in this tale of what happens after you say, ‘I do.’