By Danielle Steel
Eccentric haute couture meets buttoned-up Madison street in Danielle Steel’s pleasing story of 2 perfect-for-each-other humans from wildly varied worlds. In a clean, humorous examine what occurs whilst a lady who has every little thing ultimately meets her fit, Danielle metal proves that, in existence and love, it’s by no means too past due for a moment chance....
SECOND CHANCE
As editor-in-chief of latest York’s major model journal, Fiona Monaghan lived a lifestyles as tense and high-toned because the type international itself, jetting backward and forward among her trendy big apple brownstone and the couture indicates of Europe. With closets full of Fendi, a noisily snoring bulldog named Sir Winston sharing her mattress, and a houseman who favors gold lamé and borrows her sneakers, Fiona was once totally content material along with her lifestyles. until eventually the sweltering June day John Anderson strolled into her workplace.
After a dinner date left them either in need of extra, Fiona abruptly invited John to the Paris couture exhibits. And within the so much romantic urban on the earth, someplace among the magic of the runway and the walk alongside the Seine, Fiona enable this guy into her middle. A widower with daughters, John Anderson used to be approximately Fiona’s contrary in each means. As conservative as she used to be freewheeling, John was once either amused and appalled through Fiona’s global of high-strung designers, anorexic types, and high-heeled housemen. yet inside of weeks in their go back to manhattan, John was once making associates with Sir Winston—and Fiona used to be making room in her closets.
It didn’t take lengthy for the dominoes to begin falling. First, John brought Fiona to his daughters, their blood-thirsty Pekingese, and a snarling housekeeper instantly out of Hitchcock’s Rebecca. It was once hate in the beginning sight. Then, after a cocktail party with John’s greatest patron is going disastrously awry, Fiona and John’s dating started to get to the bottom of with alarming pace. What occurs subsequent will set Fiona on a trip jam-packed with soreness and revelation, awakening and change.…For while she returns to Paris by myself and takes an awesome possibility, a unprecedented sequence of occasions starts to spread. and because the snow falls at the urban of sunshine, Fiona is set to get the shock of her lifestyles: a moment act she by no means observed coming.
In a blinding story of recent misadventures and career-crossed relationships, Danielle metal brings us into the lives of 2 unforgettable humans as they love and snigger, fight and live to tell the tale. With unerring perception, she captures the heady magic of quick charm, the demanding situations of change—and the wish that comes after we dare to do all of it all over again.
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