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Coco Barrington ha nacido en el seno de una célebre familia de Hollywood que espera grandes cosas de ella. Su madre es una exitosa escritora; viuda y hermosa, acaba de liarse con un hombre mucho más joven que ella y parece que la relación le sienta fenomenal. Su hermana, Jane, es una de las productoras más importantes del star system; lesbiana y segura de sí misma, lleva casada con una reconocida guionista más de diez años. Y Coco… Coco dejó la carrera de Derecho a medias y se largó a California para alejarse de los focos, la opulencia y la superficialidad. Ahora trabaja paseando perros y se ha convertido, oficialmente, en la oveja negra de la familia. Pero cuando Jane le pide insistentemente que se traslade a su mansión para cuidar de su perro durante su ausencia no puede negarse. Y es entonces como aprende una de las verdades fundamentales de la vida: nada sale nunca como te esperas. Resulta que la casa incluye un invitado sorpresa, Leslie Baxter, un atractivo actor británico que huye de su ex y es, para más inri, la estrella del momento. Sus mundos no podían ser más diferentes. La atracción no podía ser más inmediata. De repente, Coco ve las cosas desde otra perspectiva: Leslie no es solo una celebrity, también está soltero y es el padre de una adorable adolescente. Su madre no es solo una ególatra con un cuerpo de infarto, es una mujer enamorada y vulnerable. Y su perfecta hermana está a punto de embarcarse en el intimidante mundo de la maternidad. Al tiempo que Coco comienza a vislumbrar cómo sería su vida con el hombre más macizo de Hollywood, la prensa no deja de perseguirlos y atosigarlos con sus preguntas, sus rumores y sus brillantes focos. ¿Podrá su relación sobrevivir al peso de la fama?

Time to blow out the candles, say goodbye to the past, and make a wish for the future! For April Wyatt, turning thirty is not what she had expected. She's single, with no interest in changing that. Her successful restaurant in downtown New York consumes every ounce of her passion and energy. Ready or not, though, April's life is about to change, in a tumultuous discovery on the morning of her milestone birthday. April's mother Valerie is a popular TV personality. Since her divorce, she has worked tirelessly to reach the pinnacle of her career. But she's having trouble equating her age with how she feels, and all the hours with personal trainers, top hairdressers and plastic surgeons can't hide the fact that she is turning sixty - and the whole world discovers it on her birthday. It is also Jack Adams' birthday - the most charismatic sports announcer and hall-of-fame football star on TV, a man who has his pick of desirable younger women. But he fears his age may finally be catching up with him when he wakes up on his fiftieth birthday needing an emergency visit to the chiropractor...As these three very different people celebrate their birthdays, they discover that life itself is a celebration - and that its greatest gifts are always a surprise. ..

Four sisters, a Manhattan brownstone, and a tumultuous year of loss and courage are at the heart of Danielle Steels new novel about a remarkable family, a stunning tragedyand what happens when four very different young women come together under one very lively roof. Candyits the only name she needsis blazing her way through Paris, New York, and Tokyo as fashions latest international supermodel. . . . Her sister Tammy has a job producing the most successful hit show on TV, and a home she loves in L.A.s Hollywood Hills. . . . In New York, oldest sister Sabrina is an ambitious young lawyer, while 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 familys annual gathering. But before the holiday is over, tragedy strikes and their world is utterly changed. (...)

Letting go, stepping up and coming outin the ways that matter most. Olympias life is hectic and fulfilling her legal career, her second marriage to a judge, her twin daughters just finishing high school, her son at college and her younger son, still at kindergarten, are all managed with energy and grace. Then one sunny day in May, she opens an invitation for her daughters to attend the most exclusive coming out ball in New York and chaos erupts all around her. One twin''s excitement is balanced by the other''s outrage, her previous husband''s profound snobbism is in sharp contrast to her current husband Harrys flat refusal to attend. As one twin is busy shopping for the perfect dress and the other siding with Harrys hostility at the very idea of this elitist event, a massive family feud breaks out. Things start to unravel with alarming speed, but can a night of calamity turn into an evening of magic?

On a warm May night in San Francisco, the Ritz-Carlton ballroom shimmers with crystal and silver as a glittering, celebrity-studded crowd gathers for a charity auction. The evening is perfect - until, just minutes before midnight, the room begins to sway. Glass shatters. And as the lights go out, people begin to scream...In the earthquake's aftermath, the lives of four strangers will converge ...Sarah Sloane, the beautiful wife of a financial star, watches her perfect world fall to pieces ...Grammy-winning singer Melanie Free, the event's headliner, comes to a turning point in her career ...Photographer Everett Carson, a former war correspondent whose personal demons have demoted him to covering society parties, finds new purpose amid the carnage ...and Sister Maggie Kent, a nun who does her best work in jeans and high-tops, searches through the rubble - and knows instantly that there is much work to be done ...As the city staggers back to life, a chain reaction of extraordinary events will touch each of the survivors ...For Sarah, it begins with the discovery of a terrible betrayal, then a strength she never knew she had.For Melanie, volunteering at a refugee camp will open new worlds of possibility. And Everett will be shaken by the unlikely relationship he forges with Maggie, who helps him rebuild his shattered life - and upends her own in the process. But as a year passes, and the anniversary of the earthquake approaches, more surprises are in store - as each discovers the unexpected gifts in a tragedy's wake ...and the amazing grace of new beginnings. Throughout these enthralling pages, Danielle Steel creates a stunning array of contrasts - from the dazzle of a society benefit to the chaos of a makeshift hospital, from the pampered lives of rock stars to the quiet heroism of emergency volunteers. It is her most powerful and life-affirming novel to date.

As she checked into the lush Beverly Hills Hotel, Tanya Harris dreaded being away from her husband, Peter, and three teenaged children. Dressed as pure Marin County mom among supermodels and movie stars, Tanya was here to do a major screenplay after years of writing stories and articles on the side, always putting her family first. And when Tanya steps into her temporary home, she is amazed at what she finds: lilies, orchids and roses; a pink marble tub; her favorite chocolates, a cashmere robe, and slippers that fit perfectly. Things are going to be different in Bungalow 2. From her first day on the set, Tanya is thrust into an intoxicating new world, where friendships and romances come and go ...and where she feels reborn, energized by the creativity and genius swirling around her. Suddenly she's working alongside A-list actors and a Hollywood legend: Oscar-winning producer Douglas Wayne, a man who always gets what he wants - and seems to have his sights set on her.Flying back to Marin County between shoots, struggling to reconnect with a family that seems to need her less and less, Tanya watches helplessly as her old life is pulled out from under her in the most crushing of ways.As her two lives collide, as one Award-winning film leads to another, Tanya begins to wonder if she can be a wife, a mother and a writer at the same time. And just as she confronts the toughest choice she has faced, she is offered another dazzling opportunity - one that could recast her story in the most amazing of ways, complete with an ending she never could have written herself. In "Bungalow 2", Danielle Steel takes us into a world few ever see - a world of fame and fortune, celebrity and genius - daring to show us the real lives, real dreams, and real struggles hidden beneath the flash and glitter of Hollywood.

Pese a su resistencia , tres solteros empedernidos caerán en las redes del amor.Charlie, Adam y Gray son alérgicos a los compromisos. Pero en sus vidas irrumpen tres mujeres muy especiales que rompen sus ferreos esquemas contra las relaciones duraderas. La diferencia de estatus social, el rechazo de la paternidad y las malas experiencias del pasado determinaran las relaciones de estos tres solteros con sus respectivas chicas: altibajos, conflictos, pasiones y, finalmente, el triunfo del amor.

Candy - it's the only the name she needs - is blazing her way through Paris, New York and Tokyo as fashion's latest international supermodel...Her sister, Tammy, has a job producing the most successful hit show on TV, and a home she loves in L.A.'s Hollywood Hills...In New York, oldest sister Sabrina is an ambitious young lawyer, while 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. Suddenly, four sisters who have been fervently pursuing success and their own lives - on opposite sides of the world - come together to share one New York brownstone, to support each other and their father, and to pick up the pieces while one sister struggles to heal her shattered body and soul.Thus begins an unscripted chapter of their lives, as a bustling house is soon filled with eccentric dogs, laughter, tears, friends, men...and the kind of honesty and unconditional love only sisters can provide.But as the four women settle in, each is forced to confront the direction of their respective lives. As the year passes and another July Fourth approaches, a season of grief and change gives way to new beginnings as a family comes together to savour its blessings and a future filled with unexpected gifts, surprises, and ultimately, hope. With unerring insight and compassion, Danielle Steel tells a compelling story of four sisters who love and laugh, struggle and triumph...and are irrevocably woven into the fabric of each other's lives. Brilliantly blending humour and heartbreak, she delivers a powerful message about the fragility - and the wonder - of life.