Delacorte Press
October 2010
On Sale: September 28, 2010
Featuring: Brigitte Nicholson
336 pages ISBN: 0385343132 EAN: 9780385343138 Hardcover Add to Wish List
Β This compelling, centuries-spanning novel brilliantly interweaves the lives of two womenβa 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 womenβs suffrage movement that she will finishβsomeday. Someday is Brigitteβs 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, Brigitteβs 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 discoveryβreaching back to the French aristocracy. How did Brigitteβs mysterious ancestor Wachiwi, a Dakota Sioux, travel from the Great Plains to the French court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinetteβand into the arms of a French marquis? How did she come to marry into Brigitteβs family? What is the truth behind the tantalizing clues in the fragmented, centuries-old records?Β Following the threads of Wachiwiβs 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 Wachiwiβs 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 Steelβs mesmerizing new novel, someday is now.Β
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