Danielle Steel

Everything is falling to pieces for Francesca Thayer. Her relationship collapses and she can't possibly manage the mortgage alone, so she is forced to do the one thing she never imagined she would: she advertises for lodgers. But soon she finds that her tenants have become the most important people in her life and Francesca discovers that she might be able to open her heart again after all...

Page Clarke is a good mother to seven-year-old Andy and fifteen-year-old Allyson. Page's husband Brad is frequently away on business trips, but overall Page feels blessed with her comfortable life in her suburban San Francisco home. Then one Saturday night everything falls apart as, in an instant, the lives of five families are changed forever.

At JFK Airport, a routine plane departs for San Francisco. Security agent Bernice Adams finds a postcard of the Golden Gate Bridge bearing an ambiguous message. Which flight is that person on, and what exactly does the message mean? Her supervisor dismisses her concerns but she is compelled to contact Homeland Security. Someone's planning something terrible and these passengers' lives entwine as they come together to help to avert a tragedy at the eleventh hour.

Kate Madison’s family are grown up and ready to forge lives of their own, but she can’t keep her children from playing against the odds. The hardest lesson will be that she can’t protect them from the choices they make.

Throughout her life Faith Madison has concealed a secret she could reveal to no one. At a funeral she meets an old friend, Brad Patterson. Through a renewal of their friendship she finds the courage to make decisions she should have made earlier, and she opens her heart to share her haunting secret.

Winona Farmington can’t help but feel that life is passing her by in her backwater Michigan town. But she escapes the dreariness of everyday life with her favourite TV show 'Beauchamp Hall', an English period drama. When she makes a shocking discovery, Winona knows it’s time to make a change and travels to the picturesque English village that’s home to the world of Beauchamp Hall, in pursuit of a new adventure . .

Tallie Jones is a Hollywood legend. An ambitious and passionate film director, her award-winning productions achieve the rare combination of critical and commercial success. But her once safe world of trusted associates is suddenly shaken to its very core - and Tallie is in shock, trying to figure out who has betrayed her among those she trusts and holds dear...

Everything happens for a reason . . . Joachim von Hartmann is born into a wealthy Argentine banking family and spends his early years in Buenos Aires. Blonde-haired and blue-eyed, he has inherited the looks of his German ancestors, while his twin brother Javier could not be more different. Following the death of their father, and when details emerge about Joachim’s maternal grandfather’s wartime activity, both boys and their mother, Liese, are cast out from the family. After the years of glamour and luxury, she must raise them alone with no financial support. Eventually Liese meets and falls in love with a French art expert, and she and Joachim move to Paris without Javier, who refuses to leave his beloved Argentina. Rumours soon start to circulate that he’s involved in the drugs trade. Following a whim, Joachim moves to England to train as a butler and discovers that he loves his role working for the aristocracy on their fine estates. On the death of his last employer, Joachim decides to move back to France to spend some time with his mother. He finds that there’s no call for butlers in Paris, but he does find a job putting his skills to good use acting as assistant and confidant to Olivia, an American who needed to escape her life in New York. Both Joachim and Olivia hold secrets about their past, and as reports come through that Javier’s life in the Columbian underworld is spiralling out of control, they must, as brave and honourable people, make some difficult decisions. What they come to understand is that destiny has a hand in their future and everything that came before had a reason. She had come to Paris to find him. The future would unfold as it was meant to and they would face it together.

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. But after two marriages, she prefers to avoid the complications and uncertainties of a new love. Then, after a chance meeting with television producer Zack Winter, everything changes...

Beautiful and successful television news anchor Melanie Adams falls in love with renowned heart transplant surgeon Peter Hallam. After a whirlwind romance, they marry. Each has children from previous marriages. The strain of a new marriage and attempts to blend a family jeopardize their happiness.

Known for its luxury and discrete service, the Hotel Louis XVI in Paris has attracted an international clientele of the rich and famous for many decades. Now, after extensive renovation and under new management, an esteemed group of loyal returning guests is set to descend upon the hotel, joined by a group of new faces who have managed to secure coveted reservations. Anxiously awaiting the guests is the new manager, Olivier Bateau, and his assistant, Yvonne Philippe. Both strive to continue the hotel's tradition for excellence, but even they were not prepared for what happened on that September evening. A successful art consultant arrives to seek solace after a brutal divorce and is surprised to find new love. A new guest contemplates ending his life and ends up saving someone else's. A high-profile politician's career will be tarnished with scandal after a mystery meeting conducted at the hotel. And a couple will find their once-in-a-lifetime trip struck by a medical emergency, leaving the future they've longed for hanging in the balance. Rocked by the events of this one fateful night, guests and staff alike brace themselves for the aftershock, as it quickly becomes apparent that there is much more drama in store....

Cooper Winslow, star of the silver screen, has received a shock - he is broke. He is faced with selling his beloved home or renting out part of it. His two new tenants, both coping with their own problems, have teenage children who also move in and suddenly The Cottage is transformed!

When his wife of eighteen years walks out, leaving him to bring up three children, Oliver struggles to cope.

Working alongside cameraman Ben Chapman, a deeply private ex-Navy SEAL, television correspondent Alix Phillips revels in the risks and whirlwind pace of her work. But her latest assignment puts her at the centre of an explosive story that will reshape many lives, including her own..

Zoe Morgan was just ten years old when her life changed forever. Her sister died of a rare illness and her parents turned into people she didn’t know. As an adult, Zoe takes a leave of absence from medical school to work in a shelter for abused children in New York. Here she meets her first love and the man she marries. Austin and Zoe have a perfect life and feel their family is complete when a baby daughter arrives. But it is only then that the devastating psychological impact of her sister's death all those years ago affects their lives in a way that nobody could ever have imagined. Will Zoe's obsession with motherhood tear her family apart?

At eighteen Angélique Latham is her father’s closest, most trusted child. But when he dies, her half-brothers brutally turn her out. Angélique makes her way to Paris, and with her impeccable style and her father’s bequest, she creates Le Boudoir, a sensational establishment where powerful men, secret desires and beautiful women come together.

After graduating from Stanford, Camille Lammenais returns to Napa Valley to help manage Chateau Joy, her parents’ renowned winery. Then, their fairytale suddenly ends with her mother’s death. Six months later her father, Christophe, is easy prey for a mysterious, charming French countess visiting the valley. As Camille’s world falls apart, it will take all of her strength to fight for her family’s legacy.

Sydney Wells' perfect, golden life vanishes when her devoted husband dies suddenly and she discovers that he has failed to include her in his will. Sydney is removed from her beautiful house and despite warnings from her own daughters, she 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.

Hollywood, 1945. Shipping heir Ward Thayer and screen star Faye Price are reunited after a chance meeting. Unable to forget the connection they shared, romance quickly sparks. But for Faye, the life she's heading for with Ward is a threat to her ambition. How can she decide between Hollywood and motherhood? Faye is on the brink of an impossible choice that will shape her life - and the lives of those she loves - in ways she could scarcely have imagined.

Sent to open the smartest department store in California, Bernie Fine becomes aware of the hollowness of his personal life. Despite his success he grows increasingly disenchanted with his existence - until five-year-old Jane O'Reilly gets lost in the store, and Bernie meets her mother....

Peter and Olivia, two strangers, meet at the Ritz in Paris and their lives briefly become enmeshed. After five days they go back to their separate lives, but nothing is the same.

It is 1941 and the devastating loss of life following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor leaves best friends Audrey and Lizzie distraught and bereft as they lose someone they both love deeply. As they come to terms with their grief, their resolve to play a worthwhile role towards the war effort is strengthened. As trained nurses they volunteer for the army medivac corps and are sent to England where they join a team who fly on dangerous missions to the Front to bring back wounded soldiers.

Audrey, Lizzie and their fellow medics and pilots will suffer the tragedies of war and experience loss and suffering. They will come to understand the importance of friendship, respect, bravery and being true to yourself. But, once the war is over, can they learn one of the hardest lessons of all: the ability to love again?

After the unexpected break-up of his marriage, Charles Waterston's comfortable existence comes to an end. He finds himself living in a remote chateau which had once belonged to a woman whose presence is still in evidence after 200 years. Charles's fascination with her diaries leads him deeper into the quest to discover more about her.

America in the 1960s. A new generation of women are breaking the boundaries – and Meredith McKenzie wants to be one of them. Determined to become a lawyer, Meredith discovers her passion for justice, fighting for civil rights and desegregation. But when the violence of the era strikes too close to home, her once tightly knit family must survive a devastating loss. Meredith will have to do anything she can to keep her family together while she fights for what she believes in.

When Granny Dan died she left a box containing ballet shoes, a locket and letters. From these clues her grand-daughter discovers the life and love of a young ballerina who left Russia at the start of the Revolution.

For April Wyatt, turning thirty is not what she had expected. Her successful restaurant in downtown New York consumes every ounce of her passion and energy. Ready or not, though, April’s life is about to change, in a tumultuous discovery on the morning of her milestone birthday.

Adrian Townsend thought she had everything: a job she liked as production assistant for a network TV show...a handsome husband she loved. It was an enviable life - the American Dream. Until she got pregnant, and Steven gave his ultimatum. Him or the baby.

Swiss-born Hugues Martin transforms a small, run-down hotel in New York into a beautiful boutique hotel, run with the precision and attention to detail he learned through his hotelier training in Europe. A single parent to four-year-old Heloise, the hotel is the centre of their world. And when Heloise grows us, she longs to follow in her father’s footsteps and one day run the Hotel Vendome.

Sarah Whitfield is looking back over seventy five years, as she waits for her family to arrive to celebrate her birthday. It is a journey through five eventful decades, telling a story of war, passion, international intrigue, and the strength of family through it all.

To everyone Madeline and Jack Hunter are the perfect media couple with a storybook marriage, but in private Jack's cruelty towards Maddy is destroying her. Only when she joins a Commission on Violence against Women does she learn to stand up to him.

Marie-Ange had an idyllic childhood in France until tragedy struck and she was sent to live in America with an elderly aunt. Her dream was to return to France, but even when she achieved this her life was still troubled!

This is the story of an extraordinary man, the woman who loved him, and finding the courage to let someone you love fly free!

Madison Allen is a renowned, career-driven photographer. Sifting through old photos in her fashionable New York apartment, she reflects on what could have been. She’d had three men in her life who were very important to her, but it was the fourth love, her job, which always won in the end. Consumed by old memories, Maddie sets off to reconnect with her past and hopes to learn that the decisions she made long ago were the right ones.

The compelling story of a woman who must struggle to overcome a shattering betrayal and the cruellest kind of "malice". Strong language.

After a carefree childhood, Maggie Kelly came of age in the shadow of grief. Her father, a pilot, died when she was nine and Maggie saw her mother struggle to put their lives back together. Her mother warned her about daredevil men and to avoid risk at all cost, so Maggie married a good, dependable man. Together they had a son and found happiness in a conventional suburban life – until tragedy struck again. Now on her own, feeling a sense of adventure for the first time, Maggie decides to face her fears, setting off on a whirlwind trip from the US to Rome, Paris, London and Monaco.

When Blake Gregory is offered a dream job in San Francisco, he accepts it without consulting his wife, and buys a magnificent, historic mansion as their new home in Pacific Heights. But past and present collide when they meet the large and lively family who lived there a century ago. All long dead but very much alive in spirit-visible to the Gregorys and no one else...