Synopsis
At seventeen, on the night of her mother's funeral, Grace Adams is attacked. A young woman with secrets too horrible to tell, with hurts so deep they may never heal, Grace will not tell the truth about the attack. She is beautiful enough for men to want her, but after a lifetime of being a victim, now she must pay the price for other people's sins. From the depths of an Illinois women's prison to a Chicago modelling agency, and from there to a challenging career in New York, Grace carries the past with her wherever she goes. In healing her own pain, she reaches out to battered women and children who live a nightmare she knows only too well.When Grace meets Charles Mackenzie, a New York lawyer, she has found a man who wants nothing from her - except to heal her, to hear her secrets, and to give her the family she so desperately wants. But with happiness finally within her grasp, Grace is at her most vulnerable - in danger of losing everything to an enemy from her past, an enemy bent on malice. Danielle Steel has written an extraordinary women's story with rare insight and power. Portraying the struggle to triumph over malice and betrayal, she transforms a life of pain into a blessin




Cherelle (Australia) (2008/03/16):
It was one of those books that you couldn't put down. A few unexpected twists and turns made it worthwhile to get to the end of the book. The protagonist, Grace Adams, is attacked on the night of her mother's funeral. She is 17yo. She will not tell the truth about the attack and her secrets mean she may never heal. The book moves from the attack, to a prison, to a modelling agency and then to New York where she finally finds someone she thinks she can trust. Just when things are looking good, another twist occurs and she is in f=danger of losing everything because of the secrets of her past and an enemy who is bent on malice.