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It all starts with a fall from a ladder in a firehouse in New York City. The firehouse has been converted into a unique Manhattan home and studio where renowned photographer Madison Allen works and lives after raising three children on her own. But the accident, which happens while Maddie is sorting through long-forgotten personal mementos and photos, results in more than a broken ankle. It changes her life.  

In Danielle Steel's remarkable new novel, one of her most memorable characters comes to terms with unfinished business and long-buried truths as the mother of three very different daughters with three singular fathers.  

Un dîner pour tout changer... Par une douce soirée d'été parisienne, des centaines de personnes, toutes vêtues de blanc, se rassemblent dans un lieu emblématique de la capitale. C'est le célèbre et mystérieux "Dîner en blanc" qui débute, comme chaque année. Les convives, triés sur le volet, installent leurs tables, leurs chaises, leur service le plus raffiné, quelques fleurs et les mets les plus exquis. Quand le soleil se couche, des milliers de bougies sont allumées et la Ville lumière révèle alors toute sa magie.

Johnny, dix-sept ans, a une jolie petite amie, des parents aimants et l'avenir devant lui. Jusqu'à ce qu'un soir de printemps, il trouve la mort dans un accident. Les mois qui suivent sa disparition sont une longue et terrible épreuve pour les siens. Comment retrouver goût à la vie ? Comment surmonter leur tristesse ? Peut-être tout simplement en sentant à leurs côtés une présence extraordinaire qui les protège et les encourage à continuer de vivre, coûte que coûte.

Sydney Wells’ perfect, golden life vanishes when her devoted husband dies suddenly in an accident. Widowed at 49, she discovers that he has failed to include her in his will. Sydney is removed from the beautiful house that has been her home for 16 years. Despite warnings from her own daughters, Sydney returns to the world of fashion she’d enjoyed as a talented young designer. Her girls only want the best for their mother, but they are concerned she’s back in a world she is no longer familiar with. 

Seule et désemparée après le décès de son mari, Stéphanie ne sait plus que faire d'elle-même. Bill lui a pourtant été infidèle et leur relation s'étiolait. Elle accepte de partir en vacances avec deux couples d'amis et passe un séjour en demi-teinte. Sur la route du retour, elle décide de ne pas rentrer chez elle où personne ne l'attend désormais et se rend à Las Vegas. C'est alors qu'elle rencontrera un homme et le monde de la musique.

Gaëlle de Barbet is 16 years old in 1940 when the German army occupies France and frightening changes begin. She is shocked and powerless when French gendarmes take away her closest friend, Rebekah Feldmann, and her family, and send them to a detention camp for deportation to an unknown, ominous fate.

Camille ha avuto un'infanzia perfetta, circondata dall'amore e da ettari di vigneti nella bellissima Napa Valley, a nord di San Francisco, in California. Lì, tra dolci colline verdi e coltivazioni a perdita d'occhio, i suoi genitori, con dedizione e impegno, hanno dato vita a una rinomata azienda vinicola e una meravigliosa tenuta, ispirata all'antica proprietà di famiglia a Bordeaux. Ma quando, dopo la laurea, Camille torna a casa per aiutare a gestire Château Joy, come ha sempre sognato, la favola s'interrompe bruscamente.

The daughter and granddaughter of prominent Manhattan lawyers, Meredith McKenzie is destined for the best of everything: top schools, elite social circles, the perfect marriage. Spending her childhood in Germany as her father prosecutes Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials, Meredith soaks up the conflict between good and evil as it plays out in real time. When her family returns to the United States, she begins blazing her own trail, swimming against the tides, spurred on by her freethinking liberal grandfather, determined to become a lawyer despite her traditional, conservative father's objections.

Kait Whittier has built her magazine column into a hugely respected read followed by fans across the country. She loves her work and adores her grown children, treasuring the time they spend together. But after two marriages she prefers to avoid the complications and uncertainties of a new love. Then, after a chance meeting with Zack Winter, a television producer visiting Manhattan from Los Angeles, everything changes.  

Deeply in love, Christophe and Joy Lammenais built Chateau Lammenais into a small but renowned Napa Valley winery and an idyllic home where they raised their beloved daughter, Camille, who takes on increasing responsibilities for the estate they all treasure. But after Joy's early death from breast cancer, a lonely Christophe soon falls prey to the machinations of a sophisticate from his native France - who moves, with her two reprobate sons, to consolidate her power over Camille and the property when Christophe is killed in a plane crash.

Natasha Leonova's beauty saved her life. Discovered on a freezing Moscow street by a Russian billionaire, she has lived for seven years under his protection, immersed in rarefied luxury, while he pursues his activities in a dark world that she guesses at but never sees. Her home is the world, often on one of Vladimir Stanislas's spectacular yachts manned by scores of heavily armed crew members. Natasha's job is to keep Vladimir happy, ask no questions, and be discreet.

Ellen Wharton has flown into New York from London, regardless of the weather and her husband's worry. The successful interior designer is intent on seeing her lively architect mother and has an important personal appointment to keep. But despite Ellen's urging, when the storm hits, seventy-four-year-old Grace Madison refuses to leave her Tribeca apartment in the midst of the evacuation zone, and they must eventually wade through chest-high water to the police boats outside.

The epitome of intelligence, high-powered energy, and grace, Blaise McCarthy is an icon in the world of television news, asking the tough questions and taking on the emotionally charged issues of world affairs and politics with courage and insight. A single mother, she manages her well-ordered career meticulously, always prepared on the air or interviewing world-renowned figures and heads of state. To her audience, Blaise seems to have it all. But privately, and off the set, there is another untold story .

Faith Madison has enjoyed the good life as the wife of a successful Manhattan investment banker and mother to two grown daughters. But every step of the way she has carried within her a secret she could divulge to no one. With unerring insight into the hearts of husbands and wives, lovers and families, Danielle Steel tells a moving story about the secrets that wound and the choices that heal.

With wit and intelligence, Danielle Steel explores love in all its guises, taking us into the lives of three unusual but wonderfully real couples. One Day at a Time is at once moving, thought provoking, and utterly impossible to put down.

In Danielle Steel’s powerful new novel, four trauma doctors - the best and brightest in their field - confront exciting new challenges, both personally and professionally, when given an unusual opportunity. When an unspeakable act of mass violence galvanizes them into action, their temporary life in Paris becomes a stark turning point: a time to face harder choices than they have ever made before - with consequences that will last a lifetime. 

Danielle Steel tells the compelling story of a woman who must struggle to overcome a shattering betrayal and the cruelest kind of malice. At 17, the night of her mother's funeral, Grace Adams is attacked. It is not the first time, and a brutal crime ensues.

From the day he was born, Nick Traina was his mother's joy. By 19, he was dead. This is Danielle Steel's powerful, personal story of the son she lost and the lessons she learned during his courageous battle against darkness. Sharing tender, painful memories and Nick's remarkable journals, Steel brings us a haunting duet between a singular young man and the mother who loved him - and a harrowing portrait of a masked killer called manic depression, which afflicts between two and three million Americans. 

Ella es Crystal Wyatt, nacida en un rancho de California, de belleza incomparable y grandes dotes artísticas, que sueña con Hollywood y con llegar a la cima del estrellato. Él es Spencer Hill, un apuesto oficial que, tras intervenir en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, se convierte en abogado y alcanza puestos de gran responsabilidad en la Casa Blanca. Ambos están destinados a amarse, pero entre ellos se interponen la política, la guerra, un matrimonio de conveniencia y el sorprendente mundo del cine.