As secrets are shared, the cast becomes a second family for Kait. L.A.’s latest “bad boy” actor, whose affairs are setting the city on fire. A sizzling starlet whose ego outstrips her abilities. A reclusive grande dame from Hollywood’s Golden Age. A world-famous actress coping with private tragedy. Within weeks, Kait is plunged into a colorful world of actors and industry pros who will bring her vision to life. And when she shares her work with Zack, he is impressed and decides to make this his next big-budget project.
Inspired by the true story of her own indomitable grandmother, Kait creates the storyline for a TV series. Then, after a chance meeting with Zack Winter, a television producer visiting Manhattan from Los Angeles, everything changes. But after two marriages, she prefers to avoid the complications and uncertainties of a new love. She loves her work and adores her grown children, treasuring the time they spend together. Kait Whittier has built her magazine column into a hugely respected read followed by fans across the country. Danielle Steel follows a talented and creative woman as she launches her first television series, helping to recruit an unforgettable cast that will bring a dramatic family saga to the screen.Drawing on research in private correspondence, congressional testimony, and other sources, she paints a fascinating portrait of the figure whose seemingly incongruous identities as benefactor and banker inspired the New York Times to dub him the "Man of Velvet and Steel."
Theresa Collins chronicles Kahn's life and times and reveals his singular place at the intersection of capitalism and modernity. This book is the full-scale biography Kahn has long deserved. The German-Jewish Kahn was also perhaps the most influential patron of the arts the nation has ever seen: he helped finance the Metropolitan Opera, brought the Ballets Russes to America, and bankrolled such promising young talent as poet Hart Crane, the Provincetown Players, and the editors of the Little Review. railroad system and supporting the Allied war effort in World War I. A partner at one of America's premier private banks, he played a leading role in reorganizing the U.S. In the early decades of the twentieth century, almost everyone in modern theater, literature, or film knew of Otto Kahn (1867-1934), and those who read the financial press or followed the news from Wall Street could scarcely have missed his name. Ransom is at once a riveting evocation of life’s inexplicable turns of fate and a testament to the human will to survive. Danielle Steel brilliantly explores the collision of a shocking crime with the ordinary lives of its victims in a novel that mesmerizes from start to finish. Racing against time in the underbelly of the criminal world, buffeted by the dark side of power, and unmoored by loss and betrayal, no one can predict where this tragedy will take them. Fernanda must draw on a strength she never knew she had. A man of unshakable integrity, Lee will soon become the one person who tries to save Fernanda’s family from a terrifying fate. She simply couldn’t imagine a greater loss, until a devastating crime rocks her family to its core-and brings Detective Ted Lee into her life. For Fernanda, whose life had once been graced by beautiful homes, security, success, and stunning wealth, the death of her brilliant, brooding husband was already too much to bear. Within weeks, the lives of these four people will collide in ways none of them could have foreseen. Four months after her husband’s death, Fernanda Barnes faces a mountain of debt she cannot repay, a world destroyed, and a marriage lost. Across town, in an exclusive Pacific Heights neighborhood, a mother tries to shield her three children from the panic rising within her. That night, three hundred miles south in San Francisco, police detective Ted Lee comes home to a silent house for twenty-nine years, he has been living for his job-and slowly falling out of love with his wife. Simultaneously, Carl Waters, a convicted murderer, is set on the path of freedom with him. Outside the gates of a California prison, Peter Morgan is released after four long years and vows to redeem himself in the eyes of the young daughters he left behind. A violent crime brings together four lives in Danielle Steel’s sixtieth bestselling novel, the story of a mother’s courage, a family’s terror, and a triumph of human strength and dignity in the face of overwhelming odds.