Fresh out of nursing school with a passion and a born gift for helping others, both Audrey and her friend Lizzie suddenly find their nation on the brink of war. Risking their lives on perilous missions, they join an elite squadron and fly…
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The Historical Fiction of Danielle Steel
She doesn't always write historical fiction, but when she does, it's epic. Find some of the prolific author's historical fiction below.
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Flying Angels
a Novel
- When a tragic turn of events leaves an infant orphaned, the child is raised in humble circumstances by a stable manager and his wife. No one, not even she, knows of her lineage.
- For richer or for poorer, in cramped apartments and grand mansions, the treasured wedding dress made in Paris in 1928 follows each generation into their new lives, and represents different hopes for each of them, as they marry very…
- Alex makes her way to London as a volunteer in the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry. But she has skills that draw the attention of another branch of the service. Fluent in French and German, she would make the perfect secret agent.
- Max is a rising star, a graduate of Harvard with friends among the wealthiest, most ambitious families in the world. And while his parents were thrown together by chance and war, Max chooses a perfect bride to start the perfect American…
- Angélique grew up under the loving tutelage of her father, the Duke of Westerfield, after the death of her aristocratic French mother. But when he dies, her half-brothers brutally turn her out, denying her very existence. But living on the…
- By accident, Gaelle begins a perilous journey with the French Resistance, hoping to save lives to make up for the beloved friend she could do nothing to help.
- A secret from the past has left the family vulnerable to the rising tide of Nazism: Nick's mother, whom he never knew, was of Jewish descent. Suddenly Nicolas must flee Germany, wrenching his sons away from the only home they have known,…
- When she is betrayed, and pursued by a scandal she does not deserve, Annabelle flees New York for war-ravaged France, hoping to lose herself in a life of service.
- Olivia and Victoria Henderson, identical twins born at the turn of the century, make an irrevocable decision that uproots them from their life of wealth and privilege.
- She is Hiroko, he is Peter, and their romance is shattered by Pearl Harbor. He goes off to war, she to a concentration camp.
- Ever since she could remember, Cassie had felt the pull of taking to the skies, and her father's partner Nick was willing to break the rules to teach her to fly.
- Edwina Winfield, returning from her engagement trip to England on the Titanic with her fiancé and her family, instantly loses her parents, the man she loved and her dreams.
- Orphaned at 13, she feels the same desires her father did, to explore the world. However, she cares for her sister and grandfather and doesn't feel she can leave - but they can get by without her just for one summer, right?
- Jeremiah Thurston, his wife, Camille, and their daughter, Sabrina, shape a legacy of tragedy, passion, and triumph for three generations living in Thurston House.
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