What to read, watch, and listen to if you lovedHigh Stakes
Danielle Steel · Book
If you loved High Stakes, start with The Studio (Peter Huyck, 2025) — a series on the same thread. Below: 4 films, 4 series and 2 podcasts, each matched to High Stakes across media.
If you loved High Stakes, you will enjoy these stories where professional ambition is constantly threatened by dangerous, hidden corporate secrets.
Films on the same thread
The Housemaid
Paul Feig · Film · 2025
Explores: Class Conflict, Gaslighting, Identity Theft.
Much like the unsettling environment of High Stakes, this story reveals that behind a facade of wealth and professional success lie dangerous secrets and toxic power dynamics.
The Devil Wears Prada
Film · 2006
Explores: Workplace dynamics, Ambition, Fashion industry.
If you were captivated by the assistant's perspective in High Stakes, you will appreciate this look at the grueling reality of navigating a high-pressure, demanding professional environment.
Babygirl
Halina Reijn · Film · 2024
Explores: Power Dynamics, Age Gap Romance, Infidelity.
This story mirrors the high-stakes office tension found in High Stakes, focusing on how personal desires and forbidden relationships can jeopardize an entire career and reputation.
Working Girl
Mike Nichols · Film · 1988
Explores: Corporate ladder, Social mobility, Female empowerment.
Just as the assistant in High Stakes looks to shake up her agency, this narrative explores the lengths one will go to succeed within a competitive corporate landscape.
Series on the same thread
The Studio
Peter Huyck · Series · 2025
Explores: Power Dynamics, Creative Compromise, Corporate Culture.
This satire captures the same volatile mix of creative ambition and corporate maneuvering that defines the agency politics and hidden agendas central to High Stakes.
Gossip Girl
Stephanie Savage · Series · 2007
Explores: Privilege, Social Status, Secrets.
Fans of the scandal-heavy atmosphere in High Stakes will find a similar preoccupation with reputation and secret-keeping among this elite group of social climbers.
Billions
Andrew Ross Sorkin · Series · 2016
Explores: Power Dynamics, Moral Ambiguity, Wealth and Corruption.
The cutthroat nature of the characters in High Stakes finds a perfect match here, where extreme professional ambition leads to a constant, dangerous game of power.
Prime Suspect
Lynda La Plante · Series · 1991
Explores: Gender Inequality, Workplace Discrimination, Ambition.
Mirroring the struggle for legitimacy in High Stakes, this drama highlights the personal toll of battling entrenched workplace discrimination and systemic barriers to professional success.
Podcasts on the same thread
High Steaks
Podcast
Explores: Celebrity feuds, Internet drama, Fandom.
If you enjoyed the focus on scandal in High Stakes, this podcast provides an addictive deep dive into the real-world feuds that mirror the agency drama.
Underpaid with Stanley Chi
Podcast
Shares a thread with High Stakes: office politics.
This podcast addresses the same frustrations regarding office politics and difficult bosses that drive the plot of High Stakes, offering a practical lens on corporate life.
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Common questions
What is the central premise of High Stakes?
High Stakes follows a new assistant who attempts to disrupt the status quo at a boutique literary and talent agency. As she navigates her new role, she uncovers a series of damaging secrets that have been kept hidden within the organization.
Is High Stakes a story about a literary agency?
Yes, High Stakes is set within a boutique literary and talent agency. The plot centers on the professional and personal challenges faced by a new assistant who discovers that the agency is hiding damaging secrets from its staff and clients.
Does High Stakes involve workplace secrets?
Workplace secrets are a primary element of High Stakes. The story focuses on a new assistant who begins to shake things up at a literary and talent agency, eventually exposing damaging information that has been intentionally kept hidden by the firm.
Who wrote High Stakes?
High Stakes was written by Danielle Steel. The novel depicts the experiences of a new assistant working at a boutique literary and talent agency where she works to uncover and address damaging secrets that have been concealed by the agency.