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A Girl Like Us

A Novel

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Wait time: About 7 weeks

Succession meets Saltburn in a crackling locked-room thriller of inconceivable wealth, unchecked power, and the secrets poised to bring a powerful family down.

It's 2004 and former reality TV star and party girl Maya Miller has just married the most eligible bachelor on the planet: Colin Sterling, of the globally famous Sterling family whose history of aristocratic titles and land holdings rival a British royal and whose media empire is comparable to the Murdochs. To some, Maya represents the American dream. To others, a gold digger. But when Colin's cousin Arianna, the heiress to the family's immense fortune, is found murdered, Maya is thrust into the spotlight: first as she is revealed to be the next heiress to the fortune, and then as the prime suspect.

Swiftly, the entire Sterling family goes into lockdown at Silver House, the family's ancestral estate in the English countryside. They're told it's for their own safety—but Maya becomes convinced that it's not to keep threats out, but to keep secrets in. Now, she has no choice but to find and expose the truth hidden within the Sterling family, and why Arianna, a girl she had never met, chose her to take her place. But Maya has secrets of her own. And she knows that in order to survive the Sterlings, she'll have to beat them at their own game.

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    • Library Journal

      November 1, 2024

      Known for her bestselling "Luxe" YA series, Anna Godbersen returns with a locked-room thriller written under a pseudonym. American reality TV star Maya Miller marries into the aristocratic British Sterling family. When the heiress to the Sterling fortune is murdered, Maya becomes the prime suspect and must find the real murderer at the family's estate in the English countryside. Prepub Alert.

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Booklist

      February 1, 2025
      YA author McLoughlin (Beautiful Wild, 2020, as Anna Godbersen) makes her adult debut with a real page-turner. In this rags-to-riches story, Maya Miller is an ex-reality-TV star and party girl who makes a name for herself as a gold digger. She marries New York's most eligible bachelor, Colin Sterling, and becomes part of Manhattan's socialite scene. Upon returning from their honeymoon, the newlyweds learn that Sterling family heiress Arianna has been murdered. The family gathers at Silver House, where they find out that Arianna bequeathed her inheritance to Maya. Why would she leave everything to someone she has never met? Now Maya is the prime suspect in the investigation, and the doors are locked until the murderer can be found. Maya must clear her name, uncover the Sterling family's skeletons, and reveal the real murderer before her own secrets are discovered. In this dysfunctional-family saga, McLoughlin explores complex familial dynamics and the impact of trauma through a twisty plot reminiscent of Jennifer Lynn Barnes' YA thriller, The Inheritance Games (2020).

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