A Girl Like Us
  • Published: 11 March 2025
  • ISBN: 9781728296135
  • Imprint: Sourcebooks Landmark
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $59.99

A Girl Like Us

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They say keep your friends close and your enemies closer—but when your enemies are the Sterlings, that old adage may just prove deadly.

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.
  • Published: 11 March 2025
  • ISBN: 9781728296135
  • Imprint: Sourcebooks Landmark
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $59.99
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About the author

Anna Sophia McLoughlin

Internationally bestselling author ANNA GODBERSEN makes a dramatic comeback as ANNA SOPHIA MCLOUGHLIN. Anna is an author and writing teacher, best known for the internationally bestselling Luxe series which sold nearly half a million copies in the US alone and was translated into a dozen markets around the world. She holds an MFA from NYU and now lives in Litchfield County where she teaches creative writing and is a regular contributor to lifestyle and arts publications.

Praise for A Girl Like Us

Smart, sly, and perfectly suited for the cultural moment. Readers will devour this thriller based around the secrets high-profile people keep...for some, to protect their wealth. For others, to survive.

Megan Shepherd, New York Times bestselling author of Malice House

This one goes out to the gold diggers! Dripping with snark, jewels, and unrepentant party girls, A Girl Like Us is the perfect mashup of The Inheritance Games and Succession, with a dash of Stone Cold Fox. Pitting a scrappy TV star against her old-money in-laws, this fast-paced, sexy, serpentine mystery charts the ways money makes the world go round, pulling off the triumphant achievement of both critiquing and reveling in the pleasures of the one-percent, equal parts take-down and gossipy drama all the way until its jaw-dropping ending. Fans of rich people behaving badly will gobble this up.

Ashley Winstead, bestselling author of Midnight is the Darkest Hour

A delicious thriller about family secrets, old money, and the ruthless wild west of early '00s reality stardom, A Girl Like Us is a crackling, perfectly-paced delight. Anna Sophia McLoughlin masterfully unspools a nail-biting plot against a backdrop of old money, new fame, and the juicy secrets that undergird both.

Jessie Gaynor, author of The Glow

A glittering mix of Knives Out, Girl Interrupted, and reality TV in the early aughts, A Girl Like Us is filled with secrets, intrigue, backstabbing characters, and a scrappy heroine you can’t help but root for. Delicious!

Sara Shepard, #1 bestselling author

Anna Sophia McLoughlin's A Girl Like Us is the best kind of read, full of beautiful, terrible rich people, criminals and con artists and celebrities, and featuring a heroine we can all get behind. Sharp, clever, juicy and incredibly fun, this book is one part inheritance game, one part whodunnit, and every page an absolute banger. If you're looking for a great read, here it is.

Sarah MacLean, New York Times bestselling author