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In a novel that is as compelling as it is compassionate, Danielle Steel weaves a story of courage in the face of unimaginable loss. With the grace of a master storyteller, she explores the strength it takes to conquer our greatest fears, showing us how the toughest choices can yield the most unexpected rewards...and how the longest, most winding journeys can begin with a single kiss.

With a wife he loves and an exciting London-based career, architect Charles Waterston's life seems in perfect balance. Nothing prepares him for the sudden end to his ten-year marriage-or his unwanted transfer to his firm's New York office. Christmas is approaching when Charlie leaves New York, heading to Vermont to ski. But a sudden snowstorm strands him in a small Massachusetts town. There Charlie meets an elderly widow who offers to rent him her exquisite lakeside chateau.

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.

En chacun de nous sommeille un héros. Par une belle matinée de mai, deux avions décollent de New York à destination de San Francisco. Quelques heures plus tôt, Bernice Adams, agent de sûreté à JFK, a trouvé une carte postale du pont du Golden Gâte portant un message énigmatique. Inquiète, la jeune femme alerte la Sécurité intérieure, qui confie le dossier à Ben Waterman.

On Sarah Whitfield's 75 birthday, memories take her back to New York in the 1930s. To a marriage that ends after a year, leaving Sarah shattered. A trip to Europe with her parents does little to raise her spirits, until she meets William, Duke of Whitfield. In time, despite her qualms, William insists on giving up his distant right to the British throne to make Sarah his duchess and his wife. On their honeymoon, the newlyweds buy an old French château, but not long after, the war begins. William joins the allied forces, leaving Sarah; their first child, an infant; and their second child on the way, in France.

Eleven years have passed since Alexa Hamilton left the South behind, fleeing the pain of her ex-husband's betrayal and the cruelty of his prominent Charleston family. Now an assistant D.A. in Manhattan, Alexa has made a name for herself as a top prosecutor while juggling her role as devoted single mom to a teenage daughter.

Gabriella's world is a confusing blend of abuse, terror, and pain with no safe place to hide from her parents' violent rage. She gains reprieve when she is abandoned to a convent, a safe, peaceful place where her battered body and soul begin to mend and grow into womanhood. Then a young priest comes into her life. Confession leads to friendship. And friendship grows dangerously into love...

À 18 ans, Alexandra Wickham, jeune aristocrate anglaise à la beauté renversante, semble promise à un destin privilégié. Mais à l'aube d'un nouveau conflit mondial, sa bravoure et son goût du risque vont la conduire sur une tout autre voie. Infirmière bénévole, polyglotte, Alex est bientôt recrutée par les services de renseignement. Après plusieurs missions sensibles en Allemagne et en France, elle devient experte en matière d'espionnage. Mais si elle revient toujours vers Richard, le pilote qui a conquis son cœur, il lui est interdit de révéler quoi que ce soit de sa double vie.

Against a vivid backdrop of history, Danielle Steel tells a compelling story of love and war, acts of faith and acts of betrayal…and of three generations of women as they journey though years of loss and survival, linked by an indomitable devotion that echoes across time.

Paul a été un père plutôt absent. Lorsqu'il décède subitement, sa famille découvre qu'il leur a réservé un héritage étonnant. À sa fille aînée, engagée auprès des sans-abri, il lègue la somme nécessaire à l'ouverture d'un centre d'accueil. Il encourage la cadette à utiliser son héritage pour voyager. La dernière a, grâce à lui, la liberté de poursuivre son rêve de devenir actrice. Et son ex-femme Véronique se voit confier la mission d'aller en Europe, à la recherche de l'auteur d'un mystérieux tableau.

At the age of 38, Brigitte Nicholson has a job she likes, a man she loves, and a book on the women’s suffrage movement that she will finish - someday. Someday is Brigitte’s watchword. Someday she and Ted, a rising star in the field of archaeology, will clarify their relationship. Someday she will have children. Someday she will stop playing it so safe. Then, on a snowy day in Boston, Brigitte’s life is jolted.

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.

Handsome, widowed, sophisticated, utterly charming, Paul Parker won the heart of a wealthy young Frenchwoman - the daughter of an American financier, the granddaughter of a major French art dealer - as his second wife. In two marriages, he fathered a challenging son and three very different daughters. But as irresponsible as he was irresistible, he ultimately shrugged off the demands of marriage and parenting to pursue life as an international bon vivant.

Une prison dorée. À 19 ans, Natasha Leonova mourait littéralement de faim dans les rues de Moscou lorsqu'elle fut sauvée par Vladimir Stanislas, l'homme le plus riche de Russie. Un miracle pour la jeune femme qui depuis vit aux côtés de ce grand amateur d'art dans un luxe inouï, avec pour seule contrepartie de plaire à Vladimir, de satisfaire ses moindres désirs, et surtout de ne poser aucune question.

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.

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...

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.

L'ouragan Ophelia menace New York. Tous s'apprêtent à affronter la tempête. Alors qu'Ellen tente de convaincre sa mère de quitter son appartement, Peter et Ben, deux étudiants, trépignent d'impatience d'assister au spectacle. Mais le déluge s'abat sur la ville et emporte tout avec lui. Dans un hôpital sans électricité, Juliette ne peut plus soigner ses patients. Charles ne retrouve ni ses deux filles ni son ex-femme. Bientôt, les eaux montent.

To look at one was to see the other. For her family, even the girls' own father, it was a constant guessing game. For strangers, the surprise was overwhelming. And for the twins Olivia and Victoria Henderson, two remarkable young women coming of age at the turn of the century, their bond was mysterious, marvelous, and often playful -- a secret realm only they inhabited. Olivia and Victoria were the beloved daughters of a man who never fully recovered from his wife's death bearing them in 1893. Shy, serious Olivia, born eleven minutes before her sister, had taken over the role of mother in their lush New York estate, managing not only a household but her rebellious twin's flights of fancy. Free-spirited Victoria wanted to change the world. She embraced the women's suffrage movement and dreamed of sailing to war-torn Europe. Then, in the girls' twenty-first year, as the First World War escalated overseas, a fateful choice changed their lives forever. It began when Victoria's life was about to become a public scandal. It led to a painful decision, and brought handsome lawyer Charles Dawson into the Hendersons' life and family. Hand-picked by the twins' father to save his daughter's reputation, Charles was still mourning his wife's death aboard the Titanic, struggling to raise his nine-year-old son alone, determined never to lose his heart again. Charles wanted to believe that for the sake of his son he could make an unwanted marriage work. But in an act of deception that only Olivia and Victoria could managa, the twins took an irrevocable step, which changed both their lives forever; and took one of the twins to the battlefield of France, the other into a marriage she longed for but could not have.

Une nuit tragique, des vies bouleversées à jamais... Le lycée Saint Ambrose, dans le Massachusetts, accueille les élites de demain. Jusque-là réservé aux garçons, l'établissement est à l'aube d'une petite révolution avec l'arrivée de ses premières étudiantes. Mais un soir, la situation bascule. Durant une fête de Halloween, une jeune fille est transportée à l'hôpital, inconsciente. À son réveil, Vivienne déclare avoir été violée, mais prétend ne pas connaître le coupable.