Random House Publishing Group
June 2010
On Sale: May 25, 2010
Featuring: Hope Dunne
384 pages ISBN: 0440243319 EAN: 9780440243311 Mass Market Paperback Add to Wish List
In a spellbinding blend of suspense and human drama, Danielle Steel tells a powerful and unusual story of one womanβs journey from darkness into light, as she fights to escape a mesmerizing sociopath who holds her in his thrallβ¦.
Hope Dunne has carved out a name for herself as a top photographer, known the joys of marriage and motherhood, and the heartbreak of loss. In her chic SoHo loft, Hope is content with her life, finding serenity and beauty through the lens of her camera. She isnβt looking for a man or excitement. But these things find her when she accepts a last- minute assignment to fly to London at Christmas and photograph one of the worldβs most celebrated writersβan Irish-American author known for novels of thrilling literary darkness.
To Hopeβs surprise, Finn OβNeill exudes warmth and a boyish charm. Enormously successful, he is a perfect counterpoint to Hopeβs quiet, steady graceβand heβs taken instantly by her. He courts her as no one ever has before, whisking her away to his palatial, isolated Irish estate.
Hope finds it all, and him, irresistible. Finnβs magnetism and brilliance are undeniable. But soon cracks begin to appear in his stories: gaps in his history, a few innocent lies, and bouts of jealousy unnerve her. Suddenly Hope is both in love and suspicious, caring and deeply in doubt, and ultimately frightened of the man she loves. Alone, thousands of miles from home, her mind is reeling. Is she just being paranoid? How many lies has he told? Are there more secrets to come? Is it possible that this adoring, attentive manβlike the characters in his novelsβis hiding something even worse? The spell cast by a brilliant sociopath has her trapped in his web, too confused and dazzled to escape as he continues to tighten his grip on her.
With razor-sharp insight, Danielle Steel delivers an unforgettable tale of danger and obsessive love. Fearlessly telling the truth, refusing to look away, Steel proves once again that as an American storyteller she has no peer when she explores the dark secrets that sometimes lurk just below the surface of ordinary lives, writing about men and women and their courage to prevail, in this case, even in the face of evil.
Danielle Steel has become more of a legend than any one of her books, which never fail to make the bestseller lists. Something of Steel's refinement and gentility transfers to her prose as her heroines enjoy enviable triumphs over inevitable tragedies.
November 11, 2009: Danielle Steel has gone back to her roots with this book. She captures your attention and keeps it with this story. She tells a good story and makes you want to root for the characters. I really enjoyed this book. I had stopped reading some of her books for a while and I am so glad I read this one.
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