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Que faire quand on a tout perdu ? Renoncer ou tout recommencer ?Sydney Wells menait une vie idyllique jusqu'a la mort tragique de son mari dans un accident de la route. Absente du testament, elle est chassee de la propriete familiale par ses belles-filles, uniques heritieres de la considerable fortune de son defunt epoux. Alors qu'on lui offre l'opportunite de retourner a sa premiere passion, la mode, en tant que styliste, Sydney saisit sa chance. Naive et manquant d'experience, refusant d'ecouter les mises en garde de ses propres filles, elle se laisse cependant vite pieger dans cet univers impitoyable...Humiliee et ruinee, la jeune veuve n'a plus d'autre choix que de repartir de zero. Mais ou trouver la force necessaire pour cela ? Entre New York et Hong Kong, avec dignite et courage, Sydney s'efforce pourtant coute que coute de se reinventer. A la cle, un avenir plein de promesses en terre inconnue, dont elle pourra etre fiere...

Arrastrados por las circunstancias, un hombre y una mujer ven cómo, a pesar de sus éxitos materiales, sus respectivas vidas se encaminan hacia el desengaño y el fracaso. De orígenes humildes, Peter Haskell ha alcanzado un alto cargo en una empresa farmaceutica. No obstante, su matrimonio con Kate se desliza por la cienaga del tedio y la incomprension. Olivia es la esposa de un inescrupuloso senador que aspira a ocupar la Casa Blanca, y es la mujer perfecta para encarnar el papel de primera dama. Pero no esta dispuesta a convertirse en una marioneta de su ambicioso marido. Peter y Olivia coinciden fortuitamente en Paris. Y este encuentro inesperado propiciara una arrebatadora historia de amor

Savoir les aimer, jusqu'au bout de leurs reves... Avocate a New York, Kate Morgan ne pourrait etre plus fiere de ses trois enfants, qui excellent tous dans ce qu'ils font. Des parcours qui forcent d'autant plus l'admiration que Kate les a eleves seule apres la mort de son mari, leur imposant parfois des choix tres eloignes de leurs aspirations. Mais le temps d'un ete mouvemente a Manhattan, le petit monde bien ordonne de Kate va voler en eclats.Ceux qu'elle croyait connaitre se montrent sous un tout autre jour : separation, enfant illegitime, revelation fracassante... Malgre le defi que cela represente, cette mere aimante sera-t-elle capable d'abandonner ses ambitions pour accepter ses enfants tels qu'ils sont ? Saura-t-elle leur reveler ses propres secrets pour renouer avec un bonheur qu'elle s'etait interdit ?

High Stakes is the new compelling and thought-provoking novel from the worlds favourite storyteller. A group of successful women discover the high price of success at a prestigious New York literary agency.Jane Addison is smart, young and ambitious delighted to have landed a job at a prestigious New York literary agency. Hailey West, her boss, is dedicated to her authors, but her home life is chaotic and challenging as a single mother following her husbands tragic death. Francine Rivers, the stern and bitter head of department is also raising children on her own after an acrimonious divorce and has had to overcome financial hardship by paying the very highest price.Meanwhile, Allie Moore seems to have it all. She relishes success and loves working with the talented actors she represents. Until a passionate relationship with one of her star clients threatens to derail her career. And Merriwether Jones, CFO for the agency, appears to have the perfect marriage until her husbands jealousy over her career threatens her happiness.Jane quickly realizes that there are damaging secrets behind the doors of the agency. She has the least power, but she is also the least willing to accept things as they are. And when she tries to put things right, the consequences will leave no one unscathed.In this riveting novel, five women at the top of their game navigate the challenges of career and ambition, family and personal lives in a world where its necessary to fight for what is right.

Orphaned. Betrayed. Determined. Angelique Latham grew up at the magnificent Belgrave Castle with her father, the Duke of Westerfield, after the death of her mother. But when he dies, her half-brothers brutally deny her very existence and send her out into the world alone. At eighteen, Angelique has a keen mind, remarkable beauty and an envelope of money her late father pressed upon her. Unable to secure employment, Angelique desperately makes her way to Paris. To survive, she will need all her resources - and one bold stroke of fortune. Angelique takes an unfamiliar and unimaginable path in setting up what becomes a highly successful business. But she lives on the edge of scandal; can she ever make a life for herself? From England to Paris and New York, Danielle Steel paints a captivating portrait of a woman of unquenchable spirit in The Duchess.

Past Perfect is a magical story of an unexpected friendship spanning a century, from the world's favourite storyteller, Danielle Steel. Sybil and Blake Gregory live a well-ordered, predictable Manhattan life - she as a cutting-edge design authority and museum consultant, he in high-tech investments - raising their teenagers Andrew and Caroline and six-year-old Charlie. But when Blake is offered a dream job as CEO of a start-up in San Francisco, he accepts it, without consulting his wife, and buys a magnificent, historic mansion as their new home in Pacific Heights. Past and present collide at their elegant mansion, when they meet the large and lively family who lived there a century ago. All long dead but very much alive in spirit - visible to the Gregorys and no one else. Within these enchanted rooms, it is at once 1917 and a century later. Have the Gregorys been given a perfect gift; beloved friends, a chance to relive the past and the wisdom and grace to shape the future?

AGAINST ALL ODDS

IN HIS FATHER S FOOTSTEPS

Quand deux familles, propriétaires de la mªme demeure, se rencontrent, á un siécle d'intervalleá!

Silent Night is an unforgettable story of love, heartache, and the strength we draw from others. This Christmas, escape with the worlds favourite storyteller, Danielle Steel, at her most moving and compelling.Emotionally gripping and richly involving, Silent Night explores how the heart has mysterious healing powers of its own, and that sometimes the best things happen when we think all is lost . . . Danielle Steels stunning novel is a deeply moving story of resilience, hope and the importance of family.Paige Watts is the ultimate stage mother. The daughter of Hollywood royalty, Paige channels her own acting dreams into making her daughter, Emma, a star. By the age of nine, Emma is playing a central role in a hit TV show. Then everything is shattered by unforeseeable tragedy.Now Emma is living with her Aunt Whitney, who had chosen a very different path from Paige. Whitney was always the career-driven older sister, loving a no-strings relationship and hating the cult of celebrity that enveloped their childhood. But at a moments notice, Whitney must change her life in every way.

In this spellbinding tale from Danielle Steel, a princess is sent away to safety during World War II, where she falls in love, and is lost forever.As the war rages on in the summer of 1943, causing massive destruction and widespread fear, the King and Queen choose to quietly send their youngest daughter, Princess Charlotte, to live with a trusted noble family in the Yorkshire countryside. Despite her fiery, headstrong nature, the princess''s fragile health poses far too great a risk for her to remain in war-torn London.Third in line to the throne, seventeen year-old Charlotte reluctantly uses an alias upon her arrival in Yorkshire, her two guardians the only keepers of her true identity. A talented horsewoman, Charlotte begins to enjoy life out of the spotlight, concentrating on training with her beloved horse. But no one predicts that in the coming months she will fall deeply in love with her protectors'' son.Far from her parents, a tragic turn of events leaves an infant orphaned. Alone in the world, that child will be raised in the most humble circumstances by a modest stable manager and his wife. No one, not even she, knows of her lineage. But when a stack of hidden letters comes to light, a secret kept for nearly two decades finally surfaces, and a long lost princess emerges.A fascinating story of family and royalty, and an unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary young woman and the man who brings her home, Royal is an exhilarating work from the worlds favourite storyteller.

Three very different sisters are inspired by a father who has done everything he can to give them the life he never had. But when tragedy strikes, can they come together to overcome the bad times and succeed as their father's daughters?Kate, Gemma and Caroline Tucker have grown up to be three very different women but with a bond that only sisters experience. What they all have in common is an unfailing admiration for their father, Jimmy, who through sheer ambition and hard work brought them from Texas when their mother left under mysterious circumstances, and raised them to enjoy a good life on the now successful ranch in California's beautiful Santa Ynez Valley. Above all, he taught them to follow their dreams.Kate, as a talented horsewoman was born to take over the ranch while Gemma escaped the Valley for a new life in Hollywood and is now the star of a major long-running TV drama. Caroline left for university to study law and is now married to a wealthy businessman in Marin County and has two children.

Danielle Steel tackles major political scandal and a power crisis in the White House in her gripping bestseller, Dangerous Games.TV journalist Alix Phillips is always willing to put herself on the frontline for her job. All that matters is getting the story.After a personal tragedy, only her beloved mother and daughter are allowed to get close. And her cameraman, Ben. Neither of them fears death it''s love that is more terrifying.When Alix''s boss suspects a major political scandal in the White House involving the Vice-President, he sends Alix to uncover the truth. This story could blow the corridors of power wide open, and this time Alix is feeling the heat. But when Alix receives some shocking news, she must make a decision about where real happiness lies. Those she loves are at risk.For someone who was never scared, Alix now realizes that the time has come to play some very dangerous games.

Saint Ambrose Prep has been the school of choice for the sons of the great and the good for over a hundred years. Now, for the first time, Saint Ambrose has just enrolled its first female students. While many of the kids on the campus have all the privilege in the world, some are struggling dealing with family, insecurity and loneliness. In such a heightened environment, even the smallest spark can become a raging fire. The day after a Halloween party, a student lies in the hospital, seriously injured and with a dangerous level of alcohol in her blood. Only the handful of students who were there when she was attacked know what happened, and they have closed ranks. As parents, students, staff and the media attempt to establish the truth, no-one at Saint Ambrose will escape the fallout. As the drama unfolds, those involved will reach a crossroads where they must choose between truth and lies, between what is easy and what is right, coming to rely on their own moral compass. Moral Compass is a highly topical, thought-provoking story from the world's favourite storyteller, Danielle Steel.