The House: A Novel-Fast Shipping

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The restoration of a majestic old home provides the exhilarating backdrop for DanielleSteel’s 66th bestselling novel, the story of a young woman’s dream, an old man’sgift, and the surprises that await us behind every closed door….

Perched on a hilloverlooking San Francisco, the house was magnificent, built in 1923 by a wealthyman for the woman he her and for this house, he would spare no expenseand overlook no detail, from the endless marble floors to the glittering a century later, with the once-grand house now in disrepair, a young womanwalks through its empty rooms. Sarah Anderson, a perfectly sensible estate lawyer,is about to do something utterly out of character. An elderly client has died andleft her two gifts. One is a generous inheritance. The other, a priceless message:to use his money for something wonderful, something in this old house,surrounded by crumbling grandeur, Sarah knows just what it is.

A respected attorneyand self-described workaholic, Sarah had always lived life by the book. With a steady,if sputtering, relationship and a tiny apartment that has suited her just fine, Sarahcannot explain the force that draws her to the mansion and its history–to the storyof a woman who once lived in the house, then mysteriously left it, to a child whogrew up there, and a drama that unfolded in war-torn France…and to a history shenever knew she had.

Taking the biggest risk of her life, Sarah enlists the helpof architect Jeff Parker, who shares Sarah’s passion for bringing the exquisite oldhouse back to she and Jeff work to restore the home’s every detail, asone relationship shatters and another begins, Sarah makes a series of powerful discoveries:about the true meaning of a dying man’s last gift…about the extraordinary legaciesthat are passed from generation to generation…and about a future she’s only justbeginning to imagine.

In a novel of daring and hope, of embracing life and takingchances, Danielle Steel brilliantly captures one woman’s courageous choice to pourherself into a dream–and receive its gifts in return.