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Alors que ses deux filles ont quitté la maison et que son mari travaille plus que jamais, Faith se trouve soudain désoeuvrée. Elle décide alors de reprendre des études et de se donner, enfin, une cha

In life and love, it's never too late for a second chance… As editor-in-chief of New York's leading fashion magazine, Fiona Monaghan was utterly content with her life, jetting back and forth between Manhattan and Europe-until the day John Anderson strolled into her office.A widower with two daughters, John was as conservative as Fiona was freewheeling, and was both amused and appalled by her world of high-strung designers, anorexic models, and Sir Winston, her snoring bulldog. But after Fiona impulsively invited John to the Paris couture shows, somewhere between the magic of the catwalk and the stroll along the Seine, she let him into her heart. Within weeks of their return to New York, John was making friends with Sir Winston - and Fiona was making room in her closets. A dazzling tale of modern misadventures, career-crossed relationships, the heady magic of instant attraction and the hope that comes when we dare to do it all over again…

Eleven-year-old Philippa (Pip) Mackenzie helps heal her mother's broken heart when her friendship with painter Matt Bowles brings new love into her widowed mom's life. However, Matt's relationship with Pip's mother, Ophélie, is complicated by the bitterness he still harbors over his divorce and Ophélie's discovery of a dark secret about her deceased husband.

La gran Danielle Steel adereza este precioso relato con sus mejores ingredientes temáticos: la búsqueda de la felicidad, el amor y el desamor, el hallazgo de alguien muy especial que puede iluminar una vida gris y sin sentido.... Faith, la protagonista, parece disfrutar de una existencia perfecta: buena situacion economica, un marido triunfador y dos preciosas hijas que ya han abandonado el hogar. Pero, bajo esa apariencia, se oculta una relacion fria junto a un hombre insensible y distante que la considera una pieza mas del mobiliario. Cuando Faith vuelve a encontrarse con Brad, el mejor amigo de su hermano ya fallecido, se sincera con el, le cuenta su deseo de estudiar y de emprender una nueva etapa. Asi comienza una relacion que habra de unir a dos personas infelices, decididas a no dejar pasar esa segunda oportunidad que tan pocas veces se presenta.

A violent crime brings together four lives in Danielle Steels sixtieth bestselling novel, the story of a mothers courage, a familys terror, and a triumph of human strength and dignity in the face of overwhelming odds. Outside the gates of a California prison, Peter Morgan is released after four long years and vows to redeem himself in the eyes of the young daughters he left behind. Simultaneously, Carl Waters, a convicted murderer, is set on the path of freedom with him. That night, three hundred miles south in San Francisco, police detective Ted Lee comes home to a silent house; for twenty-nine years, he has been living for his joband slowly falling out of love with his wife. Across town, in an exclusive Pacific Heights neighborhood, a mother tries to shield her three children from the panic rising within her. Four months after her husbands death, Fernanda Barnes faces a mountain of debt she cannot repay, a world destroyed, and a marriage lost. Within weeks, the lives of these four people will collide in ways none of them could have foreseen. For Fernanda, whose life had once been graced by beautiful homes, security, success, and stunning wealth, the death of her brilliant, brooding husband was already too much to bear. She simply couldnt imagine a greater loss, until a devastating crime rocks her family to its coreand brings Detective Ted Lee into her life. A man of unshakable integrity, Lee will soon become the one person who tries to save Fernandas family from a terrifying fate. Fernanda must draw on a strength she never knew she had. Racing against time in the underbelly of the criminal world, buffeted by the dark side of power, and unmoored by loss and betrayal, no one can predict where this tragedy will take them. Danielle Steel brilliantly explores the collision of a shocking crime with the ordinary lives of its victims in a novel that mesmerizes from start to finish. Ransom is at once a riveting evocation of lifes inexplicable turns of fate and a testament to the human will to survive.

A mother's love and a son's gift… Johnny Peterson could light up a room with a word or a smile. He had a future filled with promise - until he stepped into a car on prom night and, in an instant, it was all taken away. In the months that follow, Johnny's family and his high school sweetheart, Becky, struggle to put together the pieces of their shattered lives. No-one is more devastated than Johnny's mother, Alice, but amid the heartache, something miraculous is about to happen. When a sudden illness sends Alice to hospital, a glorious vision comes to her - there, standing before her, is Johnny himself, gently urging his bewildered mother to be strong for her family. Through a season of hope and healing, Johnny walks by his mother's side, leading his parents, his girlfriend, his sister and his brother out of their grief. But as Alice discovers, Johnny has returned not just to help those he loves, but to uncover a purpose even he cannot comprehend … one that will change them all forever. An unforgettable story of loving and letting go - a celebration of life, hope and forgiveness.

Es una de las autoras más leídas en el mundo, con sus historias de amor y desengaño. Como la estos matrimonios, amigos desde siempre, que, en un agosto en St. Tropez, descubren sus deseos y secretos más ocultos. Viejas heridas, y el amor que abre a nuevos horizontes. 

After charming, handsome, 17-year-old Johnny Patterson is killed in a car accident his angel returns to bring comfort, guidance, and hope to those who loved him.

Eccentric high fashion meets buttoned-up Madison Avenue in Danielle Steels captivating tale of two perfect-for-each-other people from two wildly different worlds. In a fresh, funny look at what happens when a woman who has everything finally meets her match, Danielle Steel proves that, in life and love, its never too late for a second chance. As editor-in-chief of New Yorks leading fashion magazine, Fiona Monaghan lived a life as hectic and high-toned as the fashion world itself, jetting back and forth between her stylish Manhattan brownstone and the couture shows of Europe. With closets stuffed with Fendi, a snoring bulldog named Sir Winston sharing her bed, and a houseman who favors gold lame and borrows her shoes, Fiona was utterly content with her life. Until the sweltering June day John Anderson strolled into her office. After a dinner date left them both wanting more, Fiona impulsively invited John to the Paris couture shows. And in the most romantic city in the world, somewhere between the magic of the runway and the stroll along the Seine, Fiona let this man into her heart. A widower with two daughters, John Anderson was nearly Fionas opposite in every way. As conservative as she was freewheeling, John was both amused and appalled by Fionas world of high-strung designers, anorexic models, and high-heeled housemen. But within weeks of their return to New York, John was making friends with Sir Winstonand Fiona was making room in her closets. It didnt take long for the dominoes to start falling. First, John introduced Fiona to his daughters, their bloodthirsty Pekingese, and a snarling housekeeper straight out of Hitchcocks Rebecca. It was hate at first sight. Then, after a dinner party with Johns biggest client goes disastrously awry, Fiona and Johns relationship began to unravel with alarming speed. What happens next will set Fiona on a journey filled with pain and revelation, awakening and change.For when she returns to Paris alone and takes an amazing risk, an extraordinary series of events begins to unfold. And as the snow falls on the city of light, Fiona is about to get the surprise of her life: a second act she never saw coming. In a dazzling tale of modern misadventures and career-crossed relationships, Dani

Against a vivid backdrop of history, Danielle Steel tells a compelling story of love and war, acts of faith and acts of betrayaland of three generations of women as they journey though years of loss and survival, linked by an indomitable devotion that echoes across time. For the Wittgenstein family, the summer of 1915 was a time of both prosperity and unease, as the guns of war sound in the distance. But for eldest daughter Beata, it was also a summer of awakening. By the glimmering waters of Lake Geneva, the quiet Jewish beauty met a young French officer and fell in love. Knowing that her parents would never accept her marriage to a Catholic, Beata followed her heart anyway. And as the two built a new life together, Beatas past would stay with her in ways she could never have predicted. For as the years pass, and Europe is once again engulfed in war, Beata must watch in horror as Hitlers terror threatens her life and familyeven her eighteen-year-old daughter Amadea, who has taken on the vows of a Carmelite nun. For Amadea, the convent is no refuge. As family and friends are swept away without a trace, Amadea is forced into hiding. Thus begins a harrowing journey of survival, as she escapes into the heart of the French Resistance. Here Amadea will find a renewed sense of purpose, taking on the most daring missions behind enemy lines. And it is here, in the darkest moments of fear, that Amadea will feel her mothers loving strengthand that of her mothers mother before heras the voices of lost loved ones echo powerfully in her heart. And here, amid the fires of war, Amadea will meet an extraordinary man, British secret agent Rupert Montgomery. In Colonel Montgomery, Amadea finds a man who will help her discover her place in an unbreakable chain between generationsand between her lost family and her dreams for the futurea future she is only just beginning to imagine: a future of hope rooted in the rich soil of the past. With the grace of a master storyteller, Danielle Steel breathes life into history, creating a bold, sweeping tale filled with unforgettable characters and breathtaking imagesfrom the elegant rituals of Europes prewar aristocracy to the brutal desperation of Germanys death camps. Drawing us into a vanished world, Echoes weaves an intricate

Danielle Steel, reina indiscutible de la novela romántica, vuelve a adentrarse en las encrucijadas de los amores imposibles. Un hombre y una mujer Isabelle y Bill, cultivan su amistad a distancias, comparten la infelicidad de sus respectivos matrimonios y su gran pasion por el arte y la literatura. Ella ha de sobrellevar la grave enfermedad de su hijo y la gelida distancia con que la trata su acaudalado esposo desde hace años; el se siente muy distante de su esposa, pero no esta dispuesto a traicionarla. Por fin, en uno de sus esporadicos encuentros en Londres, adonde han decidido acudir para visitar exposiciones, surge el primer beso y, tras el, la fatalidad, pues son victimas de un absurdo accidente que les causa gravisimas heridas. Una hermosa novela sobre la amistad y el amor, sobre cuan precaria es la felicidad y sobre los inesperados vuelcos del destino.

In her fifty-ninth bestselling novel, Danielle Steel tells an unforgettable story of survival...of how two people who lost everything find hope...and of the extraordinary acts of faith and courage that bring and keep families together... On a windswept summer day, as the fog rolls across the San Francisco coastline, a solitary figure walks down the beach, a dog at her side. At eleven, Pip Mackenzie's young life has already been touched by tragedy; nine months before, a terrible accident plunged her mother into inconsolable grief. But on this chilly July afternoon, Pip meets someone who fills her sad gray world with color and light. And in her innocence and in his kindness, a spark will be kindled, lives will be changed, and a journey of hope will begin. From the moment the curly-haired girl walks up to his easel on the sand, Matt Bowles senses something magical about her. Pip reminds him of his own daughter at that age, before a bitter divorce tore his family apart and swept his children halfway across the world. With her own mother, Ophelie, retreating deeper into her grief, Pip spends her summer at the shore the way lonely children do: watching the glittering waters and rushing clouds, daydreaming and remembering how things used to be. That is, until she meets artist Matt Bowles, who offers to teach the girl to drawand can't help but notice her beautiful, lonely mother. At first, Ophelie is thrown off balance by her daughter's new companionuntil she realizes how much joy he is bringing into their lives, despite the sadness she sees in his eyes. As their newfound friend works his subtle magic, mother and daughter slowly begin to heal, to laugh again, to rediscover what they have lost. When summer ends, and Ophelie and Pip must leave the beach for the city, the season of healing continues. Gathering her newfound strength, Ophelie begins a volunteer job at a city outreach program, where she works with the homeless, and can no longer ignore the blessings in her own life. But as soul-sharing phone calls and autumn beach getaways deepen Ophelie and Matt's friendship, fate strikes another blow. Out of the blue, Matt must confront unfinished business from his past. Days later, Ophelie is struck by a stunning betrayal by someone she trusts. And as these events

1940.La belle Kate Jamison rencontre au bal des débutantes Joe Allbright, célèbre pilote d'avion poussant toujours plus loin les records de vitesse. Elle ne le sait pas encore, mais cet homme rés

Faith Madison is the very picture of a sophisticated New Yorker. Slim, blonde, stylish, married to a successful merchant banker, she has a life many would envy. But Faith has overcome a childhood marred by tragedy, and has carried within herself a secret she can divulge to no-one. The death of her stepfather sets off a journey of change and revelation. At the funeral, an old friend re-enters Faiths life. Brad, a lanky boy from her childhood days who had teased, tormented and protected her, is now a lawyer in California, and Faith meets him again just as she makes a decision that plunges her marriage into crisis. Determined to have a career of her own, Faith applies to law school against her husbands wishes, igniting a barrage of anger and recrimination. As she and Brad re-discover each other, Faith is finally ready to face the most painful step of all: of sharing a secret that has long been haunting her, and opening up her heart for the first time in her life. With unerring insight, Danielle Steel tells a wise and moving story of the secrets that wound and the choices that heal and of the second chances that come only once in a lifetime.

The roller-coaster ride of dating second time around... Paris Armstrong never saw it coming. With two grown-up children and a lovely home in Connecticut, Paris was happy with her marriage, her family, her life. So when her husband of twenty-four years said they needed to talk, Paris couldn't imagine what he was about to say. "I want a divorce," Peter tells her. Just like that, Peter and his thirty-one-year-old lover had made plans for their future, leaving Paris to pick up the pieces of a shattered life. The task could not have been more painful, but finally, Paris realizes she is in a fight for her very survival. Saying goodbye to the world she knows and loves, Paris heads west, to San Francisco, and discovers being single in a world of men who are too young, too old, too married or too good to be true. With her dating track record veering between disappointing and disastrous, Paris comes to the conclusion that romance is not in her future - until she discovers the secret of turning despair into freedom and loss into joy. In a poignant, wickedly funny novel about getting dumped and getting over it, Danielle Steel explores what it means to start again, and find something better than you had before.

A violent crime brings together four lives in Danielle Steels sixtieth bestselling novel, the story of a mothers courage, a familys terror, and a triumph of human strength and dignity in the face of overwhelming odds. Outside the gates of a California prison, Peter Morgan is released after four long years and vows to redeem himself in the eyes of the young daughters he left behind. Simultaneously, Carl Waters, a convicted murderer, is set on the path of freedom with him. That night, three hundred miles south in San Francisco, police detective Ted Lee comes home to a silent house; for twenty-nine years, he has been living for his joband slowly falling out of love with his wife. Across town, in an exclusive Pacific Heights neighborhood, a mother tries to shield her three children from the panic rising within her. Four months after her husbands death, Fernanda Barnes faces a mountain of debt she cannot repay, a world destroyed, and a marriage lost. Within weeks, the lives of these four people will collide in ways none of them could have foreseen. For Fernanda, whose life had once been graced by beautiful homes, security, success, and stunning wealth, the death of her brilliant, brooding husband was already too much to bear. She simply couldnt imagine a greater loss, until a devastating crime rocks her family to its coreand brings Detective Ted Lee into her life. A man of unshakable integrity, Lee will soon become the one person who tries to save Fernandas family from a terrifying fate. Fernanda must draw on a strength she never knew she had. Racing against time in the underbelly of the criminal world, buffeted by the dark side of power, and unmoored by loss and betrayal, no one can predict where this tragedy will take them. Danielle Steel brilliantly explores the collision of a shocking crime with the ordinary lives of its victims in a novel that mesmerizes from start to finish. Ransom is at once a riveting evocation of lifes inexplicable turns of fate and a testament to the human will to survive.