In this beguiling new novel, Danielle Steel tells the story of three very
different people, each of whom, on the same day, reaches a crucial turning
point in life - a rite both bittersweet and full of hope, a time to blow
out the candles, say goodbye to the past, and make a wish for the future.

Valerie Wyatt is the queen of gracious living and the arbiter of taste.
Since her long-ago divorce, she's worked hard to reach the pinnacle of her
profession and to create a camera-ready life in her Fifth Avenue penthouse.
So why is she so depressed? All the hours with her personal trainer, the
careful work of New York's best hairdressers, cosmetic surgeons, and her
own God-given bone structure and great looks can't fudge the truth or her
lies about it: Valerie is turning sixty.

Valerie's daughter, April, has no love life, no rest, and no prospect of
that changing in the foreseeable future. Her popular one-of-a-kind
restaurant in downtown New York, where she is chef and owner, consumes
every ounce of her attention and energy. Ready or not, though, April's
life is about to change, in a tumultuous transformation that begins the
morning it hits her: She's thirty. And what does she have to show for it?
A restaurant, no man, no kids.

Jack Adams once threw a football like a guided missile. Twelve years after
retiring from the NFL, he is the most charismatic sports analyst on TV,
a man who has his pick of the most desirable twentysomething women. But
after a particularly memorable Halloween party, Jack wakes up on his
fiftieth birthday, his back thrown out of whack, feeling every year his
age.

A terrifying act of violence, an out-of-the-blue blessing, and two
extremely unlikely love affairs soon turn lives inside out and upside
down. In a novel brimming with warmth and insight, beginning on one
birthday and ending on another, Valerie, April, and Jack discover that
life itself can be a celebration - and that its greatest gifts are
always a surprise.

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