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Two Danielle Steel titles together for the first time in one collectionHappy Birthday
Valerie Wyatt is the queen of gracious living and the arbiter of taste with a successful TV show. Since her long-ago divorce, sheโs worked hard to reach the pinnacle of her profession and to create a camera-ready life in her Fifth Avenue penthouse.
So why is she so depressed? All the hours with her personal trainer, the careful work of New Yorkโs best hairdressers, cosmetic surgeons, and her own God-given bone structure and great looks canโt fudge the truth or her lies about it: Valerie is turning sixty.
Valerieโs daughter, April, has no love life, no rest, and no prospect of that changing in the foreseeable future. Her popular one-of-a-kind restaurant in downtown New York, where she is chef and owner, consumes every ounce of her attention and energy.
Valerieโs daughter, April, has no love life, no rest, and no prospect of that changing in the foreseeable future. Her popular one-of-a-kind restaurant in downtown New York, where she is chef and owner, consumes every ounce of her attention and energy.
Ready or not, though, Aprilโs life is about to change, in a tumultuous transformation that begins the morning it hits her: sheโs thirty. And what does she have to show for it? A restaurant, no man, no kids.
Jack Adams once threw a football like a guided missile. Twelve years after retiring from the NFL, he is the most charismatic sports analyst on TV, a man who has his pick of the most desirable twenty-something women. But after a particularly memorable Halloween party, Jack wakes up on his fiftieth birthday, his back thrown out of whack, feeling every year his age.
A terrifying act of violence, an out-of-the-blue blessing, and two extremely unlikely love affairs soon turn lives inside out and upside down. In a novel brimming with warmth and insight, beginning on one birthday and ending on another, Valerie, April, and Jack discover that life itself can be a celebration and that its greatest gifts are always a surprise.
Hotel Vendome
After his wife leaves him for another man, Hugues Martinโs life revolves solely around two things . . . the celebrated five-star hotel he owns and manages in New York City and his daughter Heloise.
At four, Heloise becomes the only woman in her fatherโs life; by seven, she is the undisputed queen of the Hotel Vendome. And as the years pass, despite her motherโs abandonment, she basks in her fatherโs love, the devotion of the hotelโs staff, and the affection of its guests.
But their little world is transformed forever when Heloise moves to France for hotel school and Hugues meets his match in Natalie Peterson, a woman who understands him and his love for the Vendome. Is there room in their lives for Natalie, or will her intrusion ruin their special bond?
A novel about second chances and learning to trust again, Hotel Vendome is Danielle Steel at her best.
Jack Adams once threw a football like a guided missile. Twelve years after retiring from the NFL, he is the most charismatic sports analyst on TV, a man who has his pick of the most desirable twenty-something women. But after a particularly memorable Halloween party, Jack wakes up on his fiftieth birthday, his back thrown out of whack, feeling every year his age.
A terrifying act of violence, an out-of-the-blue blessing, and two extremely unlikely love affairs soon turn lives inside out and upside down. In a novel brimming with warmth and insight, beginning on one birthday and ending on another, Valerie, April, and Jack discover that life itself can be a celebration and that its greatest gifts are always a surprise.
Hotel Vendome
After his wife leaves him for another man, Hugues Martinโs life revolves solely around two things . . . the celebrated five-star hotel he owns and manages in New York City and his daughter Heloise.
At four, Heloise becomes the only woman in her fatherโs life; by seven, she is the undisputed queen of the Hotel Vendome. And as the years pass, despite her motherโs abandonment, she basks in her fatherโs love, the devotion of the hotelโs staff, and the affection of its guests.
But their little world is transformed forever when Heloise moves to France for hotel school and Hugues meets his match in Natalie Peterson, a woman who understands him and his love for the Vendome. Is there room in their lives for Natalie, or will her intrusion ruin their special bond?
A novel about second chances and learning to trust again, Hotel Vendome is Danielle Steel at her best.
ISBN:9780552171670
