In her 50th bestselling novel Danielle Steel takes us behind the closed doorsof a prominent marriage to explore the private secrets hidden behind publiclives.<s... » 

In her 50th bestselling novel Danielle Steel takes us behind the closed doorsof a prominent marriage to explore the private secrets hidden behind publiclives.JourneyEveryone in Washington knows Madeleine and Jack Hunter. Maddy is an awardwinning TV anchorwoman. Jack is the head of her network an adviser to thePresident on media issues. To the world theirs is a storybook marriage. Twobrilliant careers. A long loving partnership. But behind the locked doors oftheir lush Georgetown home a very different story emerges. For as Maddyscareer soars a bitter edge has crept into Jacks words a pattern of subtleputdowns control and jealousy that Maddy has always tried to ignore anddeny. For Maddy there are no bruises no scars only the daggers of fearhumiliation and isolation. Their effect as powerful as the gun the knife orthe fist the wounds as deep. Through hard work long years and with Jackshelp Maddy has become a role model and a star. It seems impossible to believethat a woman the nation idolizes lives in degradation and fear. Only Maddyknows the terror in her heart. Her secrets are well kept sometimes even fromherself.Maddys journey to healing begins when the Presidents wife offers anextraordinary opportunity the chance to join her newly formed Commission onViolence Against Women. There Maddy hears chilling stories from terrifiedwives and girlfriends that sound eerily familiar. And there she comes to knowBill Alexander a distinguished scholar and diplomat who also works on thecommission. Bill suspects that something is terribly wrong in Maddys marriageand begs her to open her eyes. And as Maddy slowly painfully takes thefirststeps toward freedom as she and Bill grow closer a remarkable series ofevents begins to unfold...a stranger from Maddys past suddenlyreappears...White House headlines bring the nation to a standstill...and adevastating tragedy occurs forcing Maddy to realize just h «