Posts Tagged ‘Danielle Steel’

		Malice: Excerpt Chapter One The sounds of the organ music drifted up to the Wedgwood blue sky. Birds sang in the trees, and in the distance, a child called out to a friend on a lazy summer morning. The voices inside the church rose in powerful unison, as they sang the familiar hymns that Grace had sung […] Read more
		Silent Honor: Excerpt Chapter One Masao Takashimaya’s family had searched for five years for a suitable bride for him, ever since his twenty-first birthday. But in spite of all their efforts to find a young woman who suited him, he rejected each of the girls as soon as he met them. He wanted a very special girl, a […] Read more
		The Ranch: Excerpt Chapter One In any other supermarket, the woman walking down the aisle, pushing a cart between canned goods and gourmet spices, would have looked strangely out of place. She had impeccably groomed shoulder-length brown hair, beautiful skin, huge brown eyes, a trim figure, perfectly done nails, and she was wearing a navy linen suit that […] Read more
		Special Delivery: Excerpt Chapter One The tires of the red Ferrari squealed, as it came around the corner and dove neatly into the space where Jack Watson always parked it. It was in the parking lot of his Beverly Hills store, Julie’s. Exactly twenty years before, he had named it after his then nine-year-old daughter. It had been […] Read more
		The Ghost: Excerpt Chapter One In the driving rain of a November day, the cab from London to Heathrow took forever. It was so dark it looked like late afternoon, and Charlie Waterston could barely see out the windows as familiar landmarks slid past him. It was only ten o’clock in the morning. And as he leaned his […] Read more
		The Long Road Home: Excerpt Chapter One A clock ticked loudly in the hall as Gabriella Harrison stood silently in the utter darkness of the closet. It was filled with winter coats, and they scratched her face, as she pressed her thin six-year-old frame as far back as she could, deep among them. She stumbled over a pair of her […] Read more
		The Klone and I: Excerpt Chapter One My first, and thus far only, marriage ended exactly two days before Thanksgiving. I remember the moment perfectly. I was lying on the floor of our bedroom, halfway under the bed, looking for a shoe, with my favorite well-worn flannel nightgown halfway to my neck, when my husband walked in, wearing gray flannel […] Read more
		Mirror Image: Excerpt Chapter One The sound of the birds outside was muffled by the heavy brocade curtains of Henderson Manor, as Olivia Henderson pushed aside a lock of long dark hair, and continued her careful inventory of her father’s china. It was a warm summer day and, as usual, her sister had gone off somewhere. Her father, […] Read more
		His Bright Light: The Story of Nick Traina: Excerpt Prologue This will not be an easy book to write, but there is much to say, in my own words, and my son’s. And as hard as it may be to write, it’s worth doing, if it helps someone. It is hard to encapsulate a being, a very special being, a soul, a smile, a […] Read more
		Bittersweet: Excerpt Chapter One India Taylor had her camera poised as an unruly army of nine-year-old boys ran across the playing field after the soccer ball they had been heatedly pursuing. Four of them collapsed in a heap, a tangle of arms and legs, and she knew that somewhere in the midst of them was her son, […] Read more