The Rise

<h2><strong><em>When we bury our secrets they always come back to haunt us...</em></strong></h2><p><strong style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>Their rise was meteoric.</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>Only a few years before they had been three friends from Glasgow just trying to survive tough lives of danger and dysfunction.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>But on one Hollywood evening in 1993 they were on the world's biggest stage accepting their Oscar in front of the watching world.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>That night was the beginning of their careers. But it was also the end of their friendship.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>Over the next twenty years Mirren McLean would become one of the most powerful writers in the movie industry.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>Zander Leith would break box-office records as cinema's most in-demand action hero.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>And Davie Johnson would rake in millions as producer of some of the biggest shows on TV.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>For two decades they didn't speak driven apart by a horrific secret.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>Until now...</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>Their past is coming back to bite them and they have to decide whether to run hide or fight.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>Because when you rise to the top there's always someone who wants to see you fall.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>An exciting new glam thriller for the fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid Liane Moriarty and Jo Spain</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>Previously published in the UK as TAKING HOLLYWOOD by Shari King.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>'Brilliant a white-knuckle ride of a novel. Gripping and wildly glamorous' Tilly Bagshawe</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>'It's a real slice of Hollywood and a brilliant read' Gerard Butler</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>'A glam edgy thriller just the way I like them' Martina Cole</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>'Sex scandal and secrets galore' Jackie Collins</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>'It's a thriller that's gritty sexy and a sensational page turner. You won't be able to put it down. I loved it!' Lorraine Kelly</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>'So gripping so gritty and so unputdownable. I loved it' Carmen Reid</span></p>