Delacorte Press
October 2010
On Sale: September 28, 2010
Featuring: Brigitte Nicholson
336 pages ISBN: 0385343132 EAN: 9780385343138 Hardcover Add to Wish List
This compelling, centuries-spanning novel brilliantly
interweaves the lives of two women—a writer working in the
heart of modern academia and a daring young Sioux Indian on
an incredible journey in the eighteenth century. The result
is an unforgettable story of courage in the face of the unknown.
At the age of thirty-eight, Brigitte Nicholson has a job she
likes, a man she loves, and a book on the women’s suffrage
movement that she will finish—someday. Someday is Brigitte’s
watchword. Someday she and Ted, a rising star in the field
of archaeology, will clarify their relationship. Someday she
will have children. Someday she will stop playing it so
safe. Then, on a snowy day in Boston, Brigitte’s life is
jolted. Suddenly everything she counted on has changed and
she finds herself questioning every choice she has made
along the way.
As she struggles to regain her balance and plot a new
course, Brigitte agrees to help her mother on a family
genealogy project. In Salt Lake City at the Family History
Library, she makes a stunning discovery—reaching back to the
French aristocracy. How did Brigitte’s mysterious ancestor
Wachiwi, a Dakota Sioux, travel from the Great Plains to the
French court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette—and into the
arms of a French marquis? How did she come to marry into
Brigitte’s family? What is the truth behind the tantalizing
clues in the fragmented, centuries-old records? Following
the threads of Wachiwi’s life, Brigitte travels to South
Dakota, then on to Paris, irresistibly drawn to this brave
young woman who lived so long ago. And as she comes closer
to solving the puzzle of Wachiwi’s journey, her previously
safe, quiet life becomes an adventure of its own. A chance
meeting with a writer of historical fiction, a new
opportunity, and a difficult choice put Brigitte at last in
the forefront of her own story. With a complex and powerful
family legacy coming to life around her, someday is no
longer in the future. Instead, in Danielle Steel’s
mesmerizing new novel, someday is now.
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