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Please Stop Looking: A Dark British Psychological Thriller of Fame, Obsession and Coercive Control
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Expected 19 Nov 26Eleven million people know her face. One man owns it.
Saskia Rennick is the face on every billboard. Perfume, watches, a global in six weeks she’ll walk onto a stage and sign a ten-year deal in front of two hundred million viewers.
Everyone is looking at her. That was always the plan.
Because Saskia isn’t only the face of the brand. She’s the bait.
Twelve years ago, Bear Loughlin found a sixteen-year-old runaway sleeping in a hostel with her shoes on. He gave her an almond croissant, a new name and a life worth photographing. Now every lonely girl who sees Saskia’s picture and thinks that could be me is exactly the girl Bear is looking for. And Saskia has spent years smiling them through his door.
Then a photoshoot ends with nineteen-year-old Cass getting into Bear’s car. Saskia smiles on cue, and for the first time she sees exactly what she’s been smiling for.
But Bear has paperwork for everything. A clause for every girl who breaks. And a plan for the day his favorite face stops smiling.
The countdown has started. The cameras won’t stop. And the only way to save the girls still inside is to stand on the biggest stage of her life and tell the whole world what she’s done.
Please Stop Looking is a dark, addictive psychological thriller about fame, control and complicity. Its narrator knows she isn’t innocent, and she has forty-two days to decide what that’s worth.
Saskia Rennick is the face on every billboard. Perfume, watches, a global in six weeks she’ll walk onto a stage and sign a ten-year deal in front of two hundred million viewers.
Everyone is looking at her. That was always the plan.
Because Saskia isn’t only the face of the brand. She’s the bait.
Twelve years ago, Bear Loughlin found a sixteen-year-old runaway sleeping in a hostel with her shoes on. He gave her an almond croissant, a new name and a life worth photographing. Now every lonely girl who sees Saskia’s picture and thinks that could be me is exactly the girl Bear is looking for. And Saskia has spent years smiling them through his door.
Then a photoshoot ends with nineteen-year-old Cass getting into Bear’s car. Saskia smiles on cue, and for the first time she sees exactly what she’s been smiling for.
But Bear has paperwork for everything. A clause for every girl who breaks. And a plan for the day his favorite face stops smiling.
The countdown has started. The cameras won’t stop. And the only way to save the girls still inside is to stand on the biggest stage of her life and tell the whole world what she’s done.
Please Stop Looking is a dark, addictive psychological thriller about fame, control and complicity. Its narrator knows she isn’t innocent, and she has forty-two days to decide what that’s worth.
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Expected publication November 19, 2026
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