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On the outside, Faith Madison is the very picture of a sophisticated New Yorker. Slim, blond, stylish, Faith has a life many would envy. Overcoming a childhood marked by tragedy, married to a successful investment banker and having raised two grown daughters, Faith has enjoyed her role as mother and wife, and the good life that emanates from their bustling Manhattan town house. But every step of the way, Faith has carried within her a secret she could divulge to no one. And with it, she has kept an even more painful secret from herself.

In her 54th best-selling novel, Danielle Steel weaves a compelling story of fame and friendship, charmed lives and private struggles...and of three very different men whose lives converge and collide at the Cottage.

Against a vivid backdrop of war and thrilling innovation, Danielle Steel breathes life into history, weaving an intensely human story that spans three decades, of two tremendously different people, who in spite of themselves, are irrevocably woven into the fabric of each other's lives. More Steel.

On a warm June evening, a red double-decker bus full of passengers speeds down a London street. A few blocks away, a man and a woman climb into a limousine, reveling in a magical evening of dancing and champagne. As their driver pulls into an intersection, the couple shares their first, searching kiss. For a moment etched in time, all stands still - until, in a flash of metal and glass, their limousine is struck at full speed, crushed under the bus's tremendous weight. And a long journey begins....

As a journalist Paxton Andrews would experience Vietnam firsthand. We follow her from high school in Savannah to college in Berkeley and then to work in Saigon. For the soldiers she knew and met there, Vietnam would change their lives in ways they could never have imagined. For the men in her life, Vietnam would change their lives in ways they could not escape or deny.

What happens to people when every aspect of their lives and well-being is threatened? In Lightning, Danielle Steel tells the story of a family thrust into uncertainty and explores whether the bonds of love and marriage can withstand life's most unexpected bolts of lightning.

On a June day, a young woman in a summer dress steps off a Chicago-bound bus into a small Midwestern town. She doesn't intend to stay. She is just passing through. Yet her stopping here has a reason and it is part of a story that you will never forget. he time is the 1950s, when life was simpler, people still believed in dreams, and family was - very nearly - everything. The place is a small Midwestern town with a high school and a downtown, a skating pond and a movie house.

With a wife he loves and an exciting London-based career, architect Charles Waterston's life seems in perfect balance. Nothing prepares him for the sudden end to his ten-year marriage-or his unwanted transfer to his firm's New York office. Christmas is approaching when Charlie leaves New York, heading to Vermont to ski. But a sudden snowstorm strands him in a small Massachusetts town. There Charlie meets an elderly widow who offers to rent him her exquisite lakeside chateau.

As president of a major pharmaceutical empire, Peter Haskell has everything. Power, position, a career, and a family, which mean everything to him, and for which he has sacrificed a great deal. Olivia Thatcher is the wife of a famous senator. She has given to her husband's ambitions and career until her soul is bone dry. She is trapped in a web of duty and obligation. Accidentally, on the night of a bomb threat, they meet in Paris, at the Ritz. Their totally different lives converge for one magical moment in the Place Vendôme, as Olivia silently, steps out of her life and walks away.

Oliver Watson's world suddenly dissolves around him when Sarah, his wife of 18 years, returns to Harvard to get her master's degree. Oliver is left on his own, with three children and a freedom he never wanted and doesn't completely understand. His family's needs and demands suddenly consume his life. When Oliver's mother is diagnosed as having Alzheimer's disease and dies soon thereafter, Oliver's father's life is changed, as well. Braver than his son with less of a future before him, George Watson, at 72, quickly embraces new relationships and, eventually, a new life.

India Taylor lived in a world of manicured lawns and neatly maintained calendars: a merry-go-round of Little League, piano lessons, and Cape Cod summer vacations. With four wonderful children, India believed in commitment and sacrifice, just as she believed in Doug, the man she married 17 years before. For India, this was the promise she made, the life she had chosen - not the award-winning career as a photojournalist she once had. It was a choice she had never truly regretted. Until she begins to regret it with all her heart.

India Taylor lived in a world of manicured lawns and neatly maintained calendars: a merry-go-round of Little League, piano lessons, and Cape Cod summer vacations. With four wonderful children, India believed in Doug, the man she married 17 years before. For India, this was the promise she made, the life she had chosen - not the award-winning career as a photojournalist she once had. It was a choice she had never truly regretted. Until she begins to regret it with all her heart.

Kait Whittier escribe una columna en una revista femenina por la que se ha ganado el respeto de sus lectoras. Tras dos matrimonios fallidos, quiere evitar las complicaciones de volverse a enamorar. Para ella lo más importante son su trabajo y sus hijos, con los que disfruta enormemente a pesar de que ya están construyendo sus propios caminos. Su vida da un giro inesperado cuando conoce a un productor de Los Ángeles que la anima a escribir para la televisión.

Sie liebt Hochzeiten, nur nicht ihre eigene Faith Ferguson ist New Yorks begehrteste Hochzeitsplanerin. So sehr Faith ihre Arbeit genießt, hat sie selbst nach zwei gescheiterten Verlobungen nicht mehr den Wunsch zu heiraten. Erfüllung findet sie in der engen Beziehung zu ihrer Zwillingsschwester Hope und in ihrer Karriere. Statt einer reibungslosen Hochzeitssaison muss Faith sich in diesem Jahr jedoch gleich mehreren ungeahnten Krisen ihrer Kunden stellen. Neben alldem kann sie die aufkeimenden Gefühle für den gutaussehenden Bruder einer ihrer Bräutigame gar nicht gebrauchen.

Cinq femmes unies dans l'adversité. Jane Addison fait ses premiers pas dans la prestigieuse agence de talents new-yorkaise Fletcher and Benson. Pour la jeune femme, intelligente et ambitieuse, c'est une opportunité inespérée. Mais tout n'est pas aussi idyllique qu'elle pourrait croire : Hailey, sa responsable, jongle entre son travail et ses enfants, qu'elle élève seule. Un défi auquel doit aussi faire face Francine, aux prises avec de graves problèmes financiers. De son côté, Allie risque sa carrière en fréquentant un célèbre acteur.

At 18, Alexandra Wickham is presented to King George V and Queen Mary in an exquisite white lace and satin dress her mother has ordered from Paris. With her delicate blond looks, she is a stunning beauty who seems destined for a privileged life. But fate, a world war, and her own quietly rebellious personality lead her down a different path. By 1939, Europe is on fire and England is at war. From her home in idyllic Hampshire, Alex makes her way to London as a volunteer in the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry. But she has skills that draw the attention of another branch of the service.

À la vie, à la mort... La vie d'Audrey Parker change à jamais quand son frère est tué lors de l'attaque de Pearl Harbor. Fraîchement sorties de l'école d'infirmière, la jeune femme et son amie Lizzie s'engagent dans l'armée américaine pour contribuer à l'effort de guerre. Elles y font la connaissance d'Alex, fille d'un grand banquier new-yorkais, et de Louise, qui se bat depuis toujours contre les préjugés raciaux. Bientôt envoyées en Angleterre, où elles rapatrient par avion les soldats alliés blessés sur le front, ces héroïnes de l'ombre risquent leur vie à chaque mission.

Alexandra Bouvier is born in Paris in 1900, at the dawn of a new century. From an early age, she is encouraged to think for herself by her enlightened family: her father, a French doctor; her mother, an American nurse; and her maternal grandfather back in the Midwest, a highly regarded newspaperman. Then at age fourteen, her comfortable life is upended as war erupts across Europe. Her parents follow their sense of duty to the front, performing triage at a field hospital and confronting the horrors of poison gas and trench warfare.

D'un échec naît parfois un nouveau départ. À la tête d'un grand studio hollywoodien depuis près de vingt ans, Andy Westfield aime son métier plus que tout. Mais il voit son existence s'effondrer quand il est licencié du jour au lendemain. Afin de passer ce cap difficile, il part se réfugier en Angleterre, dans une petite station balnéaire. Là-bas, il fait la connaissance de Violet Smith. La jeune femme, ancienne journaliste, aspire elle aussi à retrouver la paix après une série de drames personnels.

Une nuit tragique, des vies bouleversées à jamais... Le lycée Saint Ambrose, dans le Massachusetts, accueille les élites de demain. Jusque-là réservé aux garçons, l'établissement est à l'aube d'une petite révolution avec l'arrivée de ses premières étudiantes. Mais un soir, la situation bascule. Durant une fête de Halloween, une jeune fille est transportée à l'hôpital, inconsciente. À son réveil, Vivienne déclare avoir été violée, mais prétend ne pas connaître le coupable.