Steel, Danielle

Daphne Fields, a famous writer who has lost her main reason for living, finds love at last while she fights for her life in a hospital room.

Traces through many years the lives, challenges, and lasting friendship of three boys and two girls who met their first day in kindergarten.

Assistant District Attorney Alexa Hamilton reluctantly sends her seventeen-year-old daughter Savannah, to live with her ex-husband and his family in Charleston after she received death threats against Savannah's life for prosecuting serial killer Luke Quentin.

Stephanie, divorced after thirteen years of marriage, meets and falls in love with Peter Baker, chairman of a high-tech enterprise, but the relationship becomes complicated when Peter, fearing Stephanie will miss him while he is away on business, sends his bionic double to keep her company.

Cassie O'Malley, a determined young woman, fights the odds and becomes a world-renowned aviator.

After eighteen happy years of marriage, Liz Sutherland must learn to cope with the sudden death of her husband, deal with caring for five children alone, and navigate the complexities of a new relationship.

Thirty-eight-year-old lawyer Sarah Anderson's riskless life changes when a gift from an elderly client--and a request that she do something daring with it--leads her to a crumbling San Francisco mansion whose history, involving a woman, a child, and war-torn France, helps her dream new dreams and find a new love.

Gabriella Harrison, psychologically scarred by the almost constant beatings she got as a child from her mother, is given a reprieve from the abuse when she is sent to live at a convent school, but even as an adult her life does not go smoothly, and she finds she must confront her past before she can deal with the future.

When six-year-old Martha moves with her mother and new stepfather to Sausalito, she dreads going to a new school, but finds it a very pleasant experience after all.