After the collapse of his first marriage, Alex had given up all hope of ever finding the right woman. Until he saw the mysterious and beautiful Raphaella...a perfect stranger. Raphaella was young, rich and desperately lonely. Sentenced to an empty life in her mansion, bound by her sense of honour and duty to her elderly husband, she denied herself any right to personal happiness...until she met Alex...a perfect stranger. She knew their love was wrong, yet it was so perfect. Made up of stolen moments- bittersweet and poignant- waiting for 'someday.' Could she ever find happiness with a perfect ...
From small-town America to a world on the cusp of World War II, Wings is an uplifting story about one womans fight to fulfil her dreams.From her familys dusty farmland airstrip near Chicago, Cassie OMalley would look at the planes shimmering in the moonlight and feel the pull of taking to the skies. Her First World War veteran father Pat wanted his son to be a pilot, not his reckless red-haired daughter. But her fathers partner Nick, fellow air ace, was willing to break all the rules and teach her to fly.When Cassie is invited to California to become a test pilot, her record-breaking flights make her a media darling. Risking her life, in a world preparing for the Second World War, she decides to chart her own course and pursue her own destiny, whatever it might cost her . . .
At seventeen, on the night of her mothers funeral, Grace Adams is attacked. A young woman with secrets too horrible to tell, with hurts so deep they may never heal, Grace will not tell the truth about the attack. She is beautiful enough for men to want her, but after a lifetime of being a victim, now she must pay the price for other peoples sins.From the depths of an Illinois womens prison to a Chicago modelling agency, and from there to a challenging career in New York, Grace carries the past with her wherever she goes. In healing her own pain, she reaches out to battered women and children who live a nightmare she knows only too well. When Grace meets Charles Mackenzie, a New York lawyer, she has found a man who wants nothing from her - except to heal her, to hear her secrets, and to give her the family she so desperately wants. But with happiness finally within her grasp, Grace is at her most vulnerable - in danger of losing everything to an enemy from her past, an enemy bent on malice.Danielle Steel has written an extraordinary womens story with rare insight and power. Portraying the struggle to triumph over malice and betrayal, she transforms a life of pain into a blessing for others. Revealing both the stark reality of domestic abuse and the healing power of love, Malice is more than powerful fiction. It is a piece of life.