Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Steel, Danielle |
| Publisher: | Dell |
| Date: | 2/3/2004 |
| Binding: | Mass-market Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
In her 57th bestselling novel, Danielle Steel brilliantly chronicles the roller-coasterride of dating the second time around—and tells a captivating story of the surprisesone woman encounters when she’s thrust into the terrifying, exhilarating world ofthe
Dating Game.
Paris Armstrong never saw it coming. With two grown children anda lovely home in Connecticut, Paris was happy with her marriage, her family, herlife. So when her husband of twenty-four years said they needed to talk, Paris couldn’ t imagine what he was about to say.
“I want a divorce,” Peter tells her. Just likethat, the husband she adored had dumped her for a younger woman. And just like that,Peter and his thirty-one-year-old lover had made their plans for their future, leavingParis to pick up the pieces of a shattered life. Within days, Peter was gone. AndParis was left to figure out how she intended to get through the next day, let alonethe rest of her life.
The task could not have been more came thetears. Then the excruciating attempts by well-meaning friends to “fix her up” withmen who paled in comparison to yet, she still loved ,Paris realized she was in a fight for her very survival. Drastic measures were calledfor. Even her shrink agreed. It was time to move—as far away as possible, just afterPeter had never felt, or been, more alone.
Saying good-bye tothe world she knew and loved, Paris heads west, to San Francisco, and discovers beingsingle in a world full of men who were too young, too old, too married, or too goodto be true. For Paris, the list seemed charming young Frenchman—so adorably sexy she almost forgot abouthis age, and did, for a while. With her dating track record veering between disappointingand disastrous, and her daughter now engaged to a man Paris’s age, Paris finallycomes to the conclusion that romance is not in her future. That’s when her smallcircle of offbeat, loving friends becomes more important than ever before. And adecision Paris makes only for herself changes her life once secret, shediscovers finally, is in finding the gifts in life’s unexpected twists and turns,and turning despair into freedom and loss into joy.
In a poignant, wickedly funnynovel about getting dumped and getting over it, about tackling life with both courageand laughter, Danielle Steel explores what it means to start over, whether you wantedto or not, and finding something better than you had before.
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