"Kezia Cooper Hobson, recently widowed, arrives in New York from San Francisco. Determined to make a fresh start, she has just completed the sale of her Pacific Heights home, not to mention her late husband's venture capital firm, and in doing so is also freed from her responsibility as a board member of the company. Bringing with her only a few personal treasures, she is excited to move into the blank slate of a beautiful midtown penthouse in the...

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.

When Danielle Steel was a young girl, her grandmother gave her a beautiful antique book with blank pages inside. She wasn't quite sure what to do with it. Draw? Write? Soon, she began to discover quotes she liked--words from other people that she wanted to keep and hold on to. She started to write them down on those smooth ivory pages. That habit of gathering sayings has stayed with Danielle throughout the years. And now, after a lifetime of collecting,...

Ophelie is a grieving young widow, Matt is a heartbroken artist. Both feel as though they have lost everything until they find each other.

Aboard the doomed ship Titanic, Edwina toasts her engagement while surrounded by her family, until she loses them. For a decade she holds together the family newspaper empire while raising her siblings.