Pretend Like You Mean It by Steve Milton

Struggling actor and not-so-struggling playboy director Jordan is a lonely actor bossed around by his gorgeous but clueless rich-boy director, Rex. Rex tries to help Jordan get into the role of the leading man in West Side Story. It’s just a stage kiss. And Rex is straight.

Is their fake relationship just an act? Jordan moonlights as a social escort. Rex wants to pretend to be gay to help his reality TV career. Rex goes way, way overboard with the gay thing. Way overboard. He doesn’t expect the fallout, nor does he expect love.

Love on stage Rex’s family is totally not into the gay act. But the production must go on, with some new twists and a nudge from Mayor Zimmer. Rex and Jordan’s love isn’t just an act.

Pretend Like You Mean It is a fake-boyfriend first-time-gay romantic comedy with stage whispers, condiment bottles, rubbing sticks together to make fire, and two gorgeous hunks getting a well-deserved HEA. No cheating, no clifhanger. Can be read as a standalone.