The Gift

On a June day a young woman in a summer dress steps off a Chicagobound businto a small midwestern town. She doesnt intend to stay. She is just passingthrough. Y... » 

On a June day a young woman in a summer dress steps off a Chicagobound businto a small midwestern town. She doesnt intend to stay. She is just passingthrough. Yet her stopping here has a reason and it is part of a story that youwill never forget.The time is the 1950s when life was simpler people still believed in dreamsand family was very nearly everything. The place is a small midwestern townwith a high school and a downtown a skating pond and a movie house. And on atreelined street in the heartland of America an extraordinary set of eventsbegins to unfold. And gradually what seems serendipitous is tinged withpurpose. A happy home is shattered by a childs senseless death. A lovingmarriage starts to unravel. And a stranger arrivesa young woman who willtouch many lives before she moves on. She and a young man will meet and fall inlove. Their love so innocent and full of hope helps to restore a familysdreams. And all of their lives will be changed forever by the precious gift sheleaves them.The Gift Danielle Steels thirtythird bestselling work is a magical storytold with stunning simplicity and power. It reveals a relationship so moving itwill take your breath away. And it tells a haunting and beautiful truth aboutthe unpredictabilityand the wonderof life. «