REVIEW: Couture by Louisa Masters (Style Me #1)

COUTURE

Style Me - Book One

by Louisa Masters

Release Date: February 12, 2026

Review

Style Me is a fresh new series set in the world of fashion and styling, complete with professional stylists, celebrities and fashion designers.

Phil is the designer and one-half of Phallacy, an upcoming label. Griff is a no-nonsense stylist with a roster of clients who like classic and clean, and appreciate Griff’s few words approach.

When a client wants ‘different’, Griff meets Phil in a quest for an awards gown. Their meeting isn’t sunshine and butterflies. Griff mistakes Phil’s nonverbal-ness during their meeting as him being a snotty designer type.

Little do they know at that first meeting, but they are adorably perfect together, and not dissimilar.

Throw in a little outside drama, lots of interesting and dynamic friends and colleagues, and an adorable dog, and you get a really fantastic story.

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Synopsis

Up-and-coming luxury brand Phallacy takes red-carpet fashion by storm…

Growing a fashion atelier from the ground up isn’t easy, but it’s still awesome. I design gorgeous clothes that people pay a lot of money for, I work with my best friend, and Hollywood A-listers are starting to murmur my name. Things couldn’t be better.

Except anxiety is a beast that’s ridden me my whole life. It doesn’t matter how good things might be, there’s always something it takes exception to. And when my baseline stress starts to rise, I become nonverbal.

Which is why my first encounter with celebrity stylist Griff Pevensy is both a dream and a nightmare. I have the chance to design an awards gown for one of the most iconic women in the industry, but a mostly silent meeting plus a design that’s not really his style aren’t likely to get me past gatekeeper Griff. If I want to make this gown, I need to connect with him and win him over.

That turns out to be a lot easier than expected. Who knew I’d have so much in common with an ex-Marine stylist who prefers to communicate in grunts? We both love fashion, his perfect princess dog, hanging out with my codependent friends… and maybe each other.

The new problem is… how unprofessional can we get before people notice? And how much do I care?

About Louisa Masters

Louisa Masters started reading romance much earlier than her mother thought she should. While other teenagers were sneaking out of the house, Louisa was sneaking romance novels in and working out how to read them without being discovered. She’s spent most of her life feeling sorry for people who don’t read, convinced that books are the solution to every problem. As an adult, she feeds her addiction in every spare second, only occasionally tearing herself away to do things like answer the phone and pay bills.

Louisa has a long list of places first discovered in books that she wants to visit, and every so often she overcomes her loathing of jet lag and takes a trip that charges her imagination. She lives in Melbourne, Australia, where she whines about the weather for most of the year while secretly admitting she’ll probably never move.

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