She's pretending to be someone she's not. He's pretending he doesn't care. What could possibly go wrong?

Alice is sunshine in human form?easy-going, cheerful, and always exactly who people need her to be. The real Alice? She keeps her tucked safely out of sight. Because if there's one thing her dating history has taught her, it's this: being herself doesn't get you chosen.

Owen Shea doesn't do people. The grumpy Irish designer at Kitchen City prefers silence, spreadsheets, and his sausage dog, Paul, to office chatter or emotional entanglements. Love? Absolutely not on the menu.

So when Alice needs a date to a wedding she dreads attending alone, she comes up with a foolproof plan: fake a boyfriend. Owen seems like the perfect candidate?especially after she overhears him talking about "sharing a bed with Paul" and assumes he's safely, completely unavailable.

Owen agrees for reasons he doesn't fully understand.

There's just one problem: Paul is a dog. And Owen isn't nearly as unavailable as Alice thinks.

What starts as a simple arrangement?Operation Wedding?quickly spirals into shared secrets, unexpected comfort, and chemistry neither of them planned for. As Alice begins to risk showing her real self, Owen must face the past he's been hiding from... and decide whether he's brave enough to want something real.

A warm, witty romantic comedy featuring grumpy/sunshine chaos, fake dating mishaps, workplace banter, and beautifully messy, neurodiverse characters?Along Came Alice is about letting your guard down, telling the truth, and discovering that love might just be worth the risk.