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Stephanie Adams is a devoted stay-at-home mother, married to a successful lawyer in northern California, in a dead marriage she stayed in for years for the sake of her children. Then, on a ski trip in Squaw Valley, her fifty-two-year-old husband dies suddenly and all bets are off.

Danielle Steel nos brinda una emotiva y potente historia sobre tres parejas, amigos de toda la vida, para quienes el mes de vacaciones que pasan juntos en Saint-Tropez se convierte en un revelador verano de cambios, sorpresas y nuevos comienzos. Pasar el año nuevo todos juntos era una tradición sagrada para las tres parejas de amigos compuestas por Diana y Eric, Pascale y John y Anne y Robert. Durante la fiesta, los seis amigos tuvieron la idea de alquilar todos juntos una mansión en el sur de Francia el verano siguiente.

For 14 years, Steve and Meredith Whitman have sustained a marriage of passion and friendship - despite the demands of two all-consuming careers. But now new opportunities present irresistible forces that could pull their perfect marriage apart.

After her parents perish in a tragic accident, Cosima Saverio assumes leadership of her family's haute couture Italian leather brand. While navigating the challenges of running a company at twenty-three, Cosima must also maintain the elegant four-hundred-year-old family palazzo in Venice and care for her younger siblings: Allegra, who survived the tragedy that killed their parents, and Luca, who has a penchant for wild parties, pretty women and poker tables.

Tvillingerne, Peter og Michael McDowell, er meget forskellige og bliver allerede som børn bitre fjender. Som voksen forlader Peter den fredfulde by, de er vokset op i, og bliver en succesfuld investeringsrådgiver, mens Michael bliver en respekteret laege, en hengiven familiefar og er byens hjørnesten. Da børsmarkedet krakker tyve år senere, bliver Peter arbejdsløs, og han har ikke andet valg en at vende tilbage til sin barndomsby, og flytte ind i det lille hus ved søen, som han har arvet efter sine foraeldre. Først er brødrenes genforening øm og oprigtig, men da Peter en dag grubler over sin mors journaler, opdager han en hemmelighed og panikken vaelder op i ham, da erkendelsen saetter ind. Hvem er hans bror? Er hans facade aegte eller ligger der noget forfaerdeligt bag? Hans opdagelse vil aendre både brødrene og deres familiers liv for altid.

Candy is blazing her way through Paris, New York, and Tokyo as fashion's latest supermodel. Her sister Tammy has a job producing a hit show on TV. In New York, oldest sister Sabrina is an ambitious young lawyer. And Annie is an American artist in Florence, living for her art. On one Fourth of July weekend, as they do every year, the four sisters come home to Connecticut for their family's annual gathering. But before the holiday is over, tragedy strikes, and their world is utterly changed.

Scandale ou conte de fée ? Juin 1943. Alors que la Luftwaffe bombarde sans relâche Londres et ses environs, le roi se résout à envoyer sa benjamine, de santé fragile, dans le Yorkshire. Au manoir des Hemmings, où peu de gens connaissent sa véritable identité, la fougueuse princesse Charlotte devient une simple roturière. Avec pour seule compagnie son fidèle étalon, une orpheline de guerre et un jeune homme sur le point de partir au front, le quotidien s'annonce morose. Le destin va pourtant bientôt frapper à sa porte.

Valerie Wyatt is the high priestess of elegance: She has built an empire on how to entertain, how to decorate, how to live beautifully, and is at the top of her game with licensing arrangements for fine fabrics, furniture, wallpaper; six books; and a highly rated TV show. Valerie's daughter, April, is a classically trained chef and the workaholic proprietor of a comfortable, popular downtown New York restaurant. They couldn't be happier in their chosen fields—or more different in their attitudes.

Four young women's lives intersect in the apartment they've shared in Hell's Kitchen: Claire, a shoe designer; Abby, an aspiring novelist; Morgan, a successful financial consultant; and Sasha, a resident in obstetrics. As different as they are from one another, the women had become a family by choice. But while their lives had proceeded smoothly in the years they'd lived together, new relationships, job opportunities, and surprising circumstances will test the strength of their bond in and outside the loft that had become their home.

Brillant agent secret, Marshall Everett a réussi à infiltrer un cartel de drogue en Amérique du Sud. Quand son identité est révélée, il doit rentrer précipitamment aux États-Unis, où il perd tous ceux qu'il aimait. Ariana Gregory renonce à la frénésie new-yorkaise pour accompagner son père diplomate en Argentine. Kidnappée peu de temps après son arrivée, elle est libérée dans des conditions traumatisantes et se retrouve vite, elle aussi, seule au monde. Le hasard les réunit à Paris, où chacun tente de se reconstruire.

For DEA Special Agent Marshall Everett, life as he knows it is over once a gunshot wound renders his arm useless. Barred forever from the undercover work he loves, he has nothing - no close friends, no family, no hometown or base, and no desire to settle for life behind a desk. He's called to action in the most unlikely of places when he stumbles upon a beautiful girl burying an old steel box in a Parisian park.

Faith Ferguson is one of New York's most sought after wedding planners. Realizing dreams and making magic happen are part of why Faith loves her job. But weddings are not always champagne and roses, and this particular year sees challenges both professionally and personally that even she questions. The Alberts' show-stopper event for hundreds on an estate in the Hamptons with orchid swans, a firework extravaganza and added family strife does not come without its problems.

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 Northern California two successful CEOs are both indispensable to their growing companies’ futures. Both are brilliant at the power game. But the difference between them is huge. One is a man, the other a woman. In this riveting novel, Danielle Steel explores what that means as she takes listeners into the rarefied world of those at the pinnacle of international business and reveals the irrevocable choices they make, what drives them, and how others perceive them. The heady drug of power impacts everything they do.

Il est temps de devenir l'héroïne de sa propre vie ! Passionnée par Jane Austen et les sœurs Brontë, Winona Farmington a toujours désiré faire carrière dans l'édition à New York. Malheureusement, elle doit quitter l'université pour retourner s'occuper de sa mère malade dans le Michigan. Des années plus tard, coincée dans une relation amoureuse médiocre et sans perspectives professionnelles, Winnie s'évade en regardant Beauchamp Hall, une série télé historique. Une énième déception lui fait alors l'effet d'un électrochoc.

Late 1930's Germany: Best friends Alex von Hemmerle and Nicolas von Bingen, titled childhood friends with neighboring estates, are witnessing the rise of Nazism when Nick's father reveals the long-buried secret of his son's partial Jewish ancestry. Warned by highly placed friends to flee, the only treasures Nick and his sons can take are two dazzling Lipizzaner horses, gifts from Alex. These powerful and majestic creatures become their ticket to a new life waiting across the ocean.

A magical transformation takes place in Danielle Steel’s luminous new novel: strangers become roommates, roommates become friends, and friends become a family in a turn of the century house in Manhattan’s West Village, at 44 Charles Street.

1958. The Palace of Versailles is hosting an event that will go down in history. It is a glamorous dusk-to-dawn ball, where a select group of debutantes will be presented to international society and royalty. And for four young women, all with something to prove, it is an event they will never forget.

The restoration of a majestic old home provides the exhilarating backdrop for Danielle Steel's 66th best-selling novel, the story of a young woman's dream, an old man's gift, and the surprises that await us behind every closed door.

En dieciocho años de matrimonio Liz y Jack Sutherland han formado una familia, un bufete de abogados que goza de bastante éxito y un hogar feliz cerca de San Francisco. Pero la mañana del día de Navidad, la tragedia llega a sus vidas: Jack es asesinado por el marido despechado de una clienta en proceso de divorcio. Empieza un período difícil para Liz, pues no solo ha de sobreponerse al dolor causado por la pérdida del gran amor de su vida para ayudar a sus hijos a comprender la muerte violenta de Jack, sino que ha de sacar adelante el bufete ella sola.