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Danielle Steel’s 56th bestselling novel is about family and friendship, about one woman’s struggle to break free from the past—and the person who helps her triumph. And almost all of all, it is about daring to believe in...Answered Prayers.
On the exterior, Faith Madison is the very picture of a sophisticated New Yorker. Slim, blond, stylish, Faith has a life many would envy. Overcoming a childhood marked by tragedy, married to a successful investment banker and having raised two grown daughters, Faith has enjoyed her role as mother and wife, and the good life that hails from their bustling Manhattan town house. But every step of the way, Faith has carried within her a secret she could divulge to nobody. And with it, she's kept a far more painful secret from herself.
For Faith, it is the sudden death of her stepfather—a guy who, like her husband, Alex, always remained just beyond her reach—that will touch off a journey of change and revelation. At the funeral, painful memories flood back—and a vintage friend reenters Faith’s life. Faith is greeting mourners, when she hears a voice behind her and a single word that brings a quick smile to her face: “Fred.” Only 1 person aside from her older brother, Jack, called her that. Brad Patterson was Jack’s best ally, a long, lanky boy who teased, tormented, and protected Faith when they fancied themselves “The Three Musketeers” as kids. When Jack died years later, Faith and Brad came together again in their common, inconsolable grief, then lost touch once again amid the demands of families and busy lives a continent apart.
Now a legal professional in California, Brad has reentered Faith’s life in the same way she is making the decision that plunges her marriage into crisis. Determined to satisfy a long-held desire for a job of her own, Faith applies to law school against her husband’s wishes, igniting a barrage of anger and recrimination. Faith’s only solace is the correspondence she's begun with Brad, a guy trapped in an empty marriage of his own, a pal she once lost and has found again. Soon e-mails are flying between them, bridging three thousand miles, sharing much-needed friendship, support, laughter. So that both of these childhood friends rediscover one another, something extraordinary is beginning to happen. Inside the safety with their friendship, Brad will see the courage to produce a decision he should have made years before. And Faith, too, is changing, beginning to have confidence in herself—and in her to grab your hands on her dreams. Gathering a strength she never knew she had, Faith is finally prepared to face the most painful step of all: of sharing the trick that has long been haunting her, and truly opening up her heart for the first time in her life.
With unerring insight in to the hearts of husbands and wives, lovers and families, Danielle Steel tells a wise and moving story of the secrets that wound and the options that heal—and of the second chances which come only one time in a lifetime.
