I Think They Love You

De: Julian Winters

Narrado por: André Santana

With his funny, big-hearted adult rom-com debut, bestselling, award-winning YA author Julian Winters shows sometimes fake dating your ex can turn into a second chance.

When Denzel “Denz” Carter’s workaholic father and CEO of 24 Carter Gold unexpectedly announces his retirement, the competition is on for who will become his successor. To convince his judgmental family members that Denz is capable of commitment, he impulsively lies about being in a serious relationship. Problem is the last serious relationship he was in hung him high and dry after leaving the continent.

Now, Denz needs to find a fake boyfriend to bring to family functions and seal the deal on the CEO position. To do so, he enlists the help of his best friend and roommate, Jamie. Someone his family already accepts in their inner circle. But when his BFF is a no-show, Denz is forced to turn to the last person he wants to be in a pretend (or any) relationship with… Braylon, the man who broke his heart.

Braylon’s sudden reappearance in Denz’s life turns everything upside down. But apparently, he needs Denz’s connections to the mayor to win his own promotion and Denz is currently up a creek without a paddle. So, they strike a deal. It’s all business, but between the funny texts and the confusing kisses, soon enough Denz is struggling to separate business from the affairs of his heart.

In Julian Winters's I Think They Love You, sometimes fake dating your way to success can mean finding the second chance at love you've needed all along.

©2025 Julian Winters (P)2025 Dreamscape Media

I adore this story

This story was such a fun romantic read. You can really see the characters growth and feel the love through the story chapter after chapter. This book was just such a feel good story and really felt like I was just a spectator getting to know this family and everything that was happening! From beginning to end I was thoroughly entertained!

Great narration and romance

This was so fun! I loved the main characters and the hilarious extended cast. The narrator did a great job, especially with differentiating between the two MMCs voices. I was also rooting for the romance.

sweet & funny

I really appreciate it and enjoyed the story. from start to finish, this was a sweet and funny book.

Great Story

Great positive story love the characters and the storytelling. Narrator was excellent as well. Will check out the authors other books

I Think They Love You

Winters layers two well-worn romance frameworks, fake dating and second chance, onto a corporate succession plot, and the combination mostly works because the professional stakes give Denz’s emotional avoidance something concrete to hide behind. The character work is the book’s clearest strength: Denz’s imposter syndrome and his complicated relationship with family expectation are rendered with enough specificity that his resistance to Braylon reads as psychologically coherent rather than manufactured tension. Where the novel loses some precision is in that same workplace scaffolding, which never quite settles into its own narrative thread and occasionally feels like set dressing for the romance rather than a genuinely parallel pressure. Still, Winters’ prose has warmth and control, and the transition from YA to adult romance is handled with tonal confidence.