MY FAVORITE AUTHOR

Danielle Steel was born Danielle Fernande Schuelein on August 14, 1947 in New York.  America’s favorite novelist wrote picture books for young readers ages 4 to 8 featuring Max and Martha.  She used these characters to provide support in area’s that some youngsters find troubling.  Danielle also introduced the character Freddie in a series of 4 books for children 6 to 8.  These books offer children and their parents a lighthearted look at life’s fears and worries.     Danielle Steel has been referred to as one of the world’s most popular romantic authors.  She is also the author of His Bright Light the story of the life and death of her son Nick Traina.  By 2005 she had published 63 novels in both hard cover and paperback.  For her contributions to the arts, the French government recognized her as an Office of Arts and Letters.  She accepted the award in July of 2002.  Danielle has also opened her own Art Gallery in San Francisco.

Where does a woman turns when she loses the love of her life? She buries herself in her work. In this book Sasha a well known art writer, is introduced to a young modern guest friend of her son's. This was the beginning of what turned out to be a romantic interlude with a wild spare of the moment young man Liam. The two could not have been further apart in their mannerism. Sasha was methodical in everything she did, while Liam was a carefree wacky artist who created chaos out of order. Faced with her feelings for Liam, Sasha had to keep them hidden from her children and the clientele of her well known art galleries in New York and Paris. Liam on the other hand was open about his feelings was ready to share them with everyone. Their affair had many ups and downs her daughter was shocked when she found them together in the family's summer house in the Hamptons. She felt that Sasha was dishonoring the memory her father and would not speak to her. His daughter got very ill and he decided to go back to his ex-wife and be father to his children. That situation created new feelings that had to be overcome. In the end, love conquers all and their circumstances changed to allow Liam and Sasha to be reunited to live their lives together.

In her fifty-second bestselling novel, Danielle Steel weaves a compelling story of the power of lies, the misuse of trust — and of one woman's triumph over a devastating betrayal. Marie-Ange Hawkins has the kind of childhood that most people dream of: freedom, love, and security in a beautiful old French château. But when Marie-Ange is just eleven, a tragic accident marks the end of her idyllic life. Orphaned and alone, she is sent to America, to live with her great-aunt on a farm in Iowa. Bitterly resented by the old woman, cut off from everything she has known and loved, Marie-Ange is forced to work tirelessly on the farm, dreaming only of the day she can return to her beloved Château de Marmouton. Synopsis: Taken from the Barnes and Nobles website.

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