


Whitney was always the studious older sister, hating the cult of celebrity that enveloped their childhood. Now Emma is living with her aunt Whitney, who had chosen a very different path from her sister’s.

Then everything is shattered by unforeseeable tragedy. By the age of nine, Emma is playing a central role in a hit TV show. The daughter of Hollywood royalty, Paige channels her acting dreams into making her own daughter, Emma, a star. Paige Watts is the ultimate stage mother. Danielle Steel’s latest novel is a deeply moving story of resilience and hope. And the childless aunt who transforms her own world to help her. Brilliantly blending humor and heartbreak, she delivers a powerful message about the fragility - and the wonder - of life. With unerring insight and compassion, Danielle Steel tells a compelling story of four sisters who love and laugh, struggle and triumph.and are irrevocably woven into the fabric of each other's lives. As the year passes and another July Fourth approaches, a season of grief and change gives way to new beginnings as a family comes together to savor its blessings and a future filled with unexpected gifts, surprises, and ultimately, hope. But as the four women settle in, each is forced to confront the direction of their respective lives. Thus begins an unscripted chapter of their lives, as a bustling house is soon filled with eccentric dogs, laughter, tears, friends, men.and the kind of honesty and unconditional love only sisters can provide. Suddenly, four sisters who have been fervently pursuing success and their own lives - on opposite sides of the world - come together to share one New York brownstone, to support each other and their father, and to pick up the pieces while one sister struggles to heal her shattered body and soul. But before the holiday is over, tragedy strikes and their world is utterly changed. Candy - it's the only the name she needs - is blazing her way through Paris, New York and Tokyo as fashion's latest international supermodel.Her sister, Tammy, has a job producing the most successful hit show on TV, and a home she loves in L.A.'s Hollywood Hills.In New York, oldest sister Sabrina is an ambitious young lawyer, while Annie is an American artist in Florence, living for her art.On one Fourth of July weekend, as they do every year, the four sisters come home to Connecticut for their family's annual gathering.
