Reputation of Stella Byrd: A Novel

A glitzy new novel about a feud and friendship between a DC socialite and pioneering woman journalist and the secret the threatens to tear them apart, from the USA TODAY bestselling author of The Stolen Book of Evelyn Aubrey and The Girls with No Names.

Stella Byrd and Robbie Hall couldn’t be more different—which might be exactly why they’re drawn to each other. A Washington socialite, Stella was pressured to give up the love of her life by her wealthy parents and she’s bee living with the heartbreak of that choice ever since. Now, as Betty Ford’s personal secretary, she moves in glittering circles of Washington’s elite with rare access to the White House.

Robbie, by contrast, has built her life on instinct and ambition. A married mother of three and one of the few women journalists in DC, she’s made a name for herself as a gossip columnist at The Washington Post. She knows the real stories don’t always make the headlines—they’re often traded at private dinners, whispered behind closed doors, and hidden in plain sight—and she’s on the hunt of the story that will cement her name as a serious journalist.

When Stella approaches Robbie with a proposal—to help bury a secret from her past in exchange for insider White House gossip—the two form an unlikely alliance that deepens into friendship. But when Robbie unearths the full truth of Stella’s past, she faces an impossible choice: protect the woman she’s come to care about or to break a story of a lifetime.

Sharp, heartfelt, and triumphant, The Reputation of Stella Byrd is an exhilarating story of ambition, friendship and the lengths some women will go to be seen.