There was a sign at the gate: Bai Yunshu, please go through the side door! Bai Yunshu had always thought that this was the greatest insult to him! When his husband and his father joined forces to send him to a mental hospital. When her husband and sister married behind their backs. When the child in her womb was mercilessly murdered by them. She realized that the insult she thought she had suffered was too far away to reach. It had only just begun!

A Precious Miracle... Two months ago, Irena and Vincenzo spent a heady week together. Now Irena is pregnant and alone... When Vincenzo hears of her plight he arrives offering marriage – but can Irena convince him that her baby is his?

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John Venner, Ph. D. in theology, loses interest in his work and his rock star wife and starts fantasizing about joining the Shakers and enjoying the simple life.

Women to Watch THE NIGHT THAT CHANGED HER LIFE He made her lose control and she hated it! Even worse, Detective Patrick Monaghan made prosecutor Helen Stewart feel. So she fled his arms and put her energy into avoiding the sexy, seductive officer. But now Patrick was accused of murder, and Helen had the case. She couldn't believe this man was a killer, but Patrick had motive, means and claimed not to remember what had happened. Helen might risk her life to discover the truth but dare she risk her heart? A sizzling love story and an exciting mystery combine to make Hilary Byrnes one of our Women To Watch.

Danielle Steel's forty-seventh bestselling novel is very much about the tides of our times, changes and responsibilities in the workplace pull two people in different directions, sweeping them into new lives and changed worlds----. Irresistible Forces For fourteen years, Steve and Meredith Whitman have sustained a marriage of passion and friendship - despite the demands of two all-consuming careers. Meredith, an investment banker, has achieved partnership in one of Wall Street's top firms. Steve A gifted physician, chose an urban trauma ward over the big money he could have earned elsewhere. The only thing missing in their lives is children. Steve longs for them. But Meredith keeps putting off motherhood, saying she isn't ready and doesn't have time. Not yet. Especially now that she has been offered an extraordinary opportunity, a chance to reach for the brass ring - in San Francisco, three thousand miles away. Meredith is thrilled and surprised when Steve urges her to accept a top position at an exciting young high-tech company. Traditionally, men's careers forces families to move to new cities, compelling their wives to abandon friends, home, and lives to follow. But Steve is more than willing to uproot himself. Saying he'll join her as he can find a new job himself, they can begin their family at last. Neither Steve nor Meredith had reckoned on the frustrations of a bi-coastal marriage, as Steve's job keeps him in New York for months longer than planned. Weekends together, their lifeline, fall prey to their hectic schedules. Alone in San Francisco, Meredith is spending long hours at the office with her boss, charismatic entrepreneur Callan Dow. Steve working late shifts at the hospital, grabbing an occasional dinner with a new colleague, a doctor raising a daughter on her own. Almost unnoticed, Steve and Meredith have begun living separate lives in increasingly separate worlds. And despite the best of intentions, irresistible forces begin to tear their lives and hearts apart. With unerring insight, Danielle Steel explores what happens when lives that fit together like delicately balanced puzzles are shifted, changed, and drift apart. Only time can tell who and what they will become as life sweeps them onward and deposits them on new, sometimes frightening, and often exciting shores. Who survives, is at the core of Irresistible Forces.

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