Characters
Alicia Billington: Luke's employee at Brandon Communications and is described by Becky as being blonde and long-legs in the first novel. This earns her the nickname Alicia Bitch Long-Legs because she's selfish and uncaring of others. Alicia and Suze have a bitter history with each other when they first worked at Brandon C as PRs. She plays an important role in ruining Becky's TV career by exposing her in an article from Daily World in calling her a fraud for telling others in how to save her money when she can't do it herself and with her bank statements to back it up. With her TV career ruined, Alicia turns her attention in ruining Luke's PR company. With her colleagues and her fiance, Ben, supporting her, she plans to steal all of his clients, including the Bank of London and set up business in King Street. Becky learns about Alicia's plans, tells Michael about it and Luke returns to England to dig up evidence. He finds a lot, and took Alicia, her colleagues and Ben by surprise in the meeting room. She is fired from Brandon C. for her plans to ruin the company's reputation by stealing their most important clients and setting up business elsewhere.
Ben Bridges: Alicia's fiancé and key player in her plans. He was the one who funded the project because of his wealth and it was carefully well thought of. He and Alicia had gotten a new business in King Street which got derailed when Luke found out the truth and returned to England.
Michael Ellis: Luke's colleague in America. He and Becky becomes good friends. It was she who told him about what Alicia had done that lead him to telling Luke the truth, but keeping Becky a secret to himself. Michael offers her a job in Washington D.C. when he learns that she is in debt and has no job. He also encourages her to find work she's passionate about and not fall into anything she's doesn't like.
Christina Rowan: The head of the personal shoppers at Barney's in New York. Becky comes as a customer there, but ends up working for her after losing her job on the Morning Coffee.
Elinor Sherman: Luke's biological mother, whom Becky immediately dislikes as she's cold, disinterested and uncaring of her son's attempt to try and reach out to her. This plays a crucial role in Shopaholic Ties The Knot when she calls out Elinor for being cold and selfish towards her son. In turn, she greatly despises Becky as she's immature and a flake for Luke's taste. She and Elinor would eventually reconcile in Mini Shopaholic, when she accepts responsibility for her actions and helps plan for Luke's surprise birthday party.
John Gavin: The new manager of Endwich Bank which Derek Smeath used to work. After reading the article from the Daily World, he greatly shows hostility towards Becky when she and Suze arrive and ask for a bigger overdraft. He sneeringly tells Becky that she needs to stop living in a fantasy world and grow up.
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