Now and Forever

Zusatztext Praise for Danielle Steel “Steel is one of the best!” — Los Angeles Times “Few modern writers convey the pathos of family and material life with such heartfelt empathy.” — The Philadelphia Inquirer “Steel pulls out all the emotional stops. . . . She delivers!” — Publishers Weekly “What counts for the reader is the ring of authenticity.” — San Francisco Chronicle Informationen zum Autor Danielle Steel  has been hailed as one of the world’s most popular authors, with over 650 million copies of her novels sold. Her many international bestsellers include  Country, Prodigal Son, Pegasus,   A Perfect Life, Power Play, Winners, First Sight, Until the End of Time, The Sins of the Mother,  and other highly acclaimed novels. She is also the author of  His Bright Light,  the story of her son Nick Traina’s life and death;  A Gift of Hope,  a memoir of her work with the homeless;  Pure Joy,  about the dogs she and her family have loved; and the children’s book  Pretty Minnie in Paris. Klappentext Although Jessica and Ian Clarke have been married seven years, they insist the thrill and excitement haven't dimmed. At Jessica's urging, Ian has quit his advertising job to become a struggling writer, and she supports him with her successful San Francisco boutique. Ian's financial dependence on Jessica upsets him more than he admits, and in a moment of bored malaise, Ian's first casual indiscretion will create a nightmare that threatens everything Jessica and Ian have carefully built. What he does changes their lives, and them, perhaps forever, as they struggle to pay the price of his foolhardy affair. Chapter 1 The weather was magnificent.  A clear blue sunny day, with sharply etched white clouds in the sky.  The perfect Indian summer.  And so hot.  The heat made everything slow and sensual.  And it was so totally unlike San Francisco.  That was the best part.  Ian sat at a small pink marble table, his usual seat, in a patch of sunlight at Enrico's restaurant on Broadway.  The traffic whizzed by while lunch-hour couples strolled.  The heat felt delicious. Under the table, Ian swung one long leg easily over the other.  Three daisies bobbed in a glass, and the bread was fresh and soft to the touch.  The almost too-thin, graceful fingers tore one slice of bread carefully away from the others.  Two young girls watched him and giggled.  He wasn't "cute," he was sexy.  Even they knew it.  And beautiful.  Handsome.  Elegant.  He had class. Tall, thin, blond.  blue-eyed, with high cheekbones and endless legs, hands that one noticed, a face one hated to stop looking at...a body one watched. Ian Clarke was a beautiful man.   And he knew it, in an offhand sort of way. He knew it.  His wife knew it.  So what? She was beautiful too.  It wasn't something they really cared about.  But other people did.  Other people loved to watch them, in that hungry way one stares at exceptionally good-looking people, wanting to know what they're saying, where they're going, who they know, what they eat...as though some of it might rub off.  It never does.  One has to be born with it.  Or spend a great deal of money to fake it.  Ian didn't fake it.  He had it. The woman in the large natural straw hat and pink dress had noticed it too. She stared at him through the mesh of the straw.  She watched his hands with the bread, his mouth as he drank.  She could even see the blond hair on his arms as he rolled up his sleeves in the sun.  She was several tables away, but she saw.  Just as she had seen him there before.  But he never saw her.  Why would he? She saw everything, and then she stopped watching.  Ian didn't know she was alive.  He was busy with the rest of the view. Life was incredibly good.  Ripe and golden and easy.  His for the plucking.  He ...

Product details

• Authors: Danielle Steel
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.1985
• EAN: 9780440117438
• ISBN: 978-0-440-11743-8
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 177 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Dell Paperbacks
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature