Louise Bagshawe Books In Order

The Movie

Screenwriter Megan Silver is a waitress in an L.A. burger joint, and her life is going nowhere fast. But she has an idea worth a million dollars if only she can get someone to read her script. Supermodel Roxana Felix is the richest, bit*chiest catwalk queen of them all. But it’s not enough; she wants to be a movie star and she’ll let nothing get in her way. Studio president Eleanor Marshall is the most powerful woman in Hollywood, yet the romantic inside her longs for love and a baby. See the Lights is The Movie which will bring them all together…

Tall Poppies

Nina Roth and Elizabeth Savage come from different sides of the world from utterly different sides of the social track. But under the skin they are the same: desperate to escape from a past which dragged them down, determined to make an extra mark on the world in spite of appalling personal tragedies. Drawn together by coincidence, held together by recognition, they are both determined to succeed. But they are both unlucky in love and have enemies who will not willingly let them succeed. And the trouble with being a tall poppy is that people always know where to find you…
‘Her novels are action packed; her hero*ines gorgeous…
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A Kept Woman

Diana Foxton is the Toast of New York. She’s rich, British and beautiful, with a designer wardrobe to die for. Recently married to the head of a publishing empire, she fills her days with shopping, gossiping, and hosting the hottest parties in town. But when she discovers her husband is having an affair, her glamorous bubble bursts. She suddenly finds herself without any money or job skills, shunned by the glittering society she once ruled. On her own for the first time, she takes the only job she can get, exchanges her Manolo Blahniks for Payless, and tries to settle into the life of a woman who does her own laundry, buys her own groceries, and takes the bus. Along the way, she discovers that her handsome new boss might be interested in more than her pretty face, and that she just might make it on her own.

The Devil You Know

Rose Fiorello has nothing. Nothing, that is, except a mane of blue black hair, she wolf eyes and a blistering hatred of Rothstein Realty, the ruthless New York property developer that crushed her father’s business like a cockroach. She’s vowed to make Rothstein’s pay and when she meets Jake, the sexy, arrogant heir to the Rothstein fortune, revenge might be within reach. Poppy Allen is the perfect LA society princess: wealthy parents, a lovely home, and looks that stop traffic. But Poppy craves the thrill of rock ‘n’ roll. It takes star quality to reach the top and Poppy knows where her talent lies. She doesn’t want to be the star, she wants to be the star maker, wheeling and dealing her way to the top. For Daisy Markham, life at her English boarding school is unbearable. Overweight and underachieving, she’s an easy target for her cruel classmates. But Daisy escapes her misery by devouring trashy bestsellers, and she’s starting to think she’d be better off writing them than reading them. Three women determined to get exactly what they want, who share more than burning ambition and dreams of success. What binds them is a secret they could have never imagined.

Monday’s Child

Gorgeous goddesses seem to surround lowly script reader Anna Brown from her deranged, glamour queen boss to her perfect, pouting roommates. For Anna, being less than beautiful is hard to bear. With a dead end job and a dead beat boyfriend, she wonders if she can ever be a success. In beauty crazed London, perhaps being talented just isn’t enough. Enter Mark Swan, Britain’s hottest director. Rugged, reclusive and powerful, everybody wants a piece of him from studio heads to supermodels. He could be Anna’s ticket to the top, but how can she ever hope to snag such a big star? Fed up with being dowdy and downbeat, Anna decides to chase her dreams, and with a little help from her friends, embarks on a madcap scheme to get what she’s after.

Sparkles

From the U.K. mega bestselling author Louise Bagshawe comes a delicious story of a diamond heiress in Paris

Fabulously wealthy, internationally adored, the aristocratic Massot family owns one of the last great jewelry firms in Paris. But seven years have passed since the disappearance of the patriarch, Pierre Massot. With hope of his return all but extinguished, his beautiful young widow, Sophie, reluctantly declares her husband dead and takes control of the family business. But even as Sophie begins to look to the future, forces are conspiring to destroy the Massots by unearthing the devastating secret from their past that Pierre may have died trying to protect.

Bagshawe’s sweeping story takes readers from the murky diamond mines of Soviet Russia to the cultural whirl of modern day Paris, unraveling the mystery of Pierre Massot s fate and the scandal and deceit that lies behind the Massot family fortune. Spanning continents and decades, Louise Bagshawe s Sparkles is an addictive tale of ambition, betrayal, and romance.

Glamour

The internationally bestselling author of Sparkles is back with an irresistibly juicy novel about three powerful women once best friends, now deadly rivals Texan honey Sally Lassiter, English rose Jane Morgan, and exotic Jordanian beauty Helen Yanna meet at an exclusive girls’ school in L.A. and vow that nothing will ever tear them apart. But when catastrophe strikes, two of the young women find themselves grieving and penniless, and the third will be forced into a fate she could never have foreseen. In their struggle to rebuild their lives, Helen, Sally, and Jane come together to create a high end department store called Glamour. But as money and recognition rocket them into the spotlight, they quickly discover what happens to promises when money is no object, lust has no bounds, and Glamour is worth everything in this seductive rags to riches saga.

Passion

A failed marriage between Melissa Elmett and Will Hyde did a lot of damage. She was too young, he was hurt when she left him. Years later, Melissa becomes the target for a kidnap plot, a consequence of her father’s ground breaking energy saving invention, and Will is the only man who can protect her. Now they re on the run, thrown together again by the pursuit of vengeance, will their Passion for each other reignite?

Glitz

‘If a novel were a glass of champagne, this would be it’ Cosmopolitan The four beautiful Chambers girls are rolling in money, thanks to the trust fund set up by their reclusive, super rich uncle Clem. But when he summons his nieces to his mansion in the Seychelles to announce his engagement to Bai Ling, a woman young enough to be their baby sister, the girls know the party could be over. Can they stop the wedding? What happens when four pampered princesses have to cope without their trust fund? Who will learn to stand on their own two feet…
and who will fall? Top ten bestseller Louise Bagshawe is the author of twelve bestselling novels, published in more than eight languages. She has also adapted her books for major Hollywood film studios. She is married with three children and lives in Northamptonshire.

Desire

A compulsive, edge of your seat read from a bestselling author, combining glamour, thrills and dangerous passion Lisa Costello is leading a charmed life until she wakes up the morning after her glamorous Thailand wedding to find her new husband Josh dead in their bed, the murder weapon in her hand. She remembers learning at the wedding that Josh had been unfaithful, but she certainly doesn’t remember killing him. As Lisa flees the scene for Europe, ex FBI trainee Sam Murray is on her trail. Catching up with her, he’s quickly convinced she’s been set up, and they start to work out which of movie producer Josh’s many enemies could be behind the hit. It’s a race against time to unearth the truth and keep Lisa out of jail or gunned down by the professional assassin tailing them. And the danger only adds to the excitement of the passion brewing between them…

Three Great Novels – The Bestsellers

This collection includes three of Louise Bagshawe’s bestsellers in one volume. In Venus Envy, Alex Wilde is 27, single, bored at work, and surrounded by flatmates that would make a glitterball feel square. Her little sister Gail is pretty, waif like, and irritating. Femme fatale Keisha is flying up the ladder of success at work. It’s time for Alex to get out and strut her stuff. In A Kept Woman, Diana Foxton has it all. Between hosting the most talked about parties in Manhattan, Diana makes being the perfect wife an art form. Then she discovers her husband is having an affair, and finds herself broke and alone, shunned by the glittering society that once embraced her. Can she make it on her own? In When She Was Bad, Lita and Rebecca are worlds apart. From the tough streets of the Bronx, Lita is determined to succeed whatever the cost. When privileged Rebecca inherits an estate in England, it’s just the start of a whole new life. Linked by betrayal, Rebecca and Lita are set against each other. Until they discover just how sweet vengeance can be.