Jewels

On Sarah Whitfields seventyfifth birthday memories take her back to New Yorkin the 1930s. To a marriage that ends after a year leaving Sarah shattered. Atrip to... » 

On Sarah Whitfields seventyfifth birthday memories take her back to New Yorkin the 1930s. To a marriage that ends after a year leaving Sarah shattered. Atrip to Europe with her parents does little to raise her spirits until shemeets William Duke of Whitfield. In time despite her qualms William insistson giving up his distant right to the British throne to make Sarah his dutchessand his wife.On their honeymoon the newlyweds buy an old French chateau but not longafter the war begins. William joins the allied forces leaving Sarah theirfirst child an infant and their second child on the way in France. After theNazi forces take over the chateau Sarah continues to survive the terror anddeprivation of the Occupation unwavering in her belief that her missinginaction husband is still alive.After the war as a gesture of goodwill the Whitfields start buying jewelsoffered for sale by impoverished war survivors. With Sarahs style and keeneye the collection becomes the prestigious Whitfields jewelry store in Paris.Eventually their jewelry business expands to London and Rome as their familygrows. Phillip their firstborn is stubborn and proud Julian their secondson is charming and generous and warm Isabelle is rebellious and willful andXavier unusual and untamed is the final unexpected gift of their love. Theyeach find their own way but will be drawn to the great house of gems theirparents built. In Jewels Danielle Steel takes the reader through fiveeventful decades that include war passion international intrigue and thestrength of family through it all. «