Safe Harbour: A Novel-Quality Guarantee

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In her fifty-ninth bestselling novel, Danielle Steel tells an unforgettable storyof how two people who lost everything find of the extraordinaryacts of faith and courage that bring —and keep— families together…

On a windsweptsummer day, as the fog rolls across the San Francisco coastline, a solitary figurewalks down the beach, a dog at her eleven, Pip Mackenzie’s young life hasalready been touched by tragedy; nine months before, a terrible accident plungedher mother into inconsolable on this chilly July afternoon, Pip meetssomeone who fills her sad gray world with color and in her innocenceand in his kindness, a spark will be kindled, lives will be changed, and a journeyof hope will begin.

From the moment the curly-haired girl walks up to his easelon the sand, Matt Bowles senses something magical about reminds him ofhis own daughter at that age, before a bitter divorce tore his family apart and swepthis children halfway across the her own mother, Ophélie, retreatingdeeper into her grief, Pip spends her summer at the shore the way lonely childrendo: watching the glittering waters and rushing clouds, daydreaming and rememberinghow things used to is, until she meets artist Matt Bowles, who offers toteach the girl to draw—and can’t help but notice her beautiful, lonely , Ophélie is thrown off balance by her daughter’s new companion—until she realizeshow much joy he is bringing into their lives, despite the sadness she sees in their newfound friend works his subtle magic, mother and daughter slowlybegin to heal, to laugh again, to rediscover what they have lost.

When summer ends,and Ophélie and Pip must leave the beach for the city, the season of healing her newfound strength, Ophélie begins a volunteer job at a city outreachprogram, where she works with the homeless, and can no longer ignore the blessingsin her own as soul-sharing phone calls and autumn beach getaways deepenOphélie and Matt’s friendship, fate strikes another of the blue, Mattmust confront unfinished business from his later, Ophélie is struck bya stunning betrayal by someone she as these events reverberate in twoalready wounded hearts, something extraordinary of the darkness thathas shadowed them both comes an unexpected gift of hope.

With grace and compassion,Danielle Steel explores the fragile bonds between mothers and daughters, husbandsand wives, family members and lifelong haunting, impassioned noveltakes us across the complex landscape of loss—to the blessings that arise from eventhe darkest once a story of triumph and a moving elegy to those whosuffer and survive, Safe Harbour is perhaps her most powerful and life-affirmingnovel to date.