With a wife he loves and an exciting London-based career, architect Charles Waterston's life seems in perfect balance. Nothing prepares him for the sudden end to his ten-year marriage-or his unwanted transfer to his firm's New York office. Christmas is approaching when Charlie leaves New York, heading to Vermont to ski. But a sudden snowstorm strands him in a small Massachusetts town. There Charlie meets an elderly widow who offers to rent him her exquisite lakeside chateau. Hidden deep in the woods, it once belonged to a woman who lived there two centuries before named Sarah Ferguson. And from the moment Charlie sets foot inside the chateau, he feels her presence. When Charlie first glimpses her, a beautiful young woman with jet-black hair, he thinks it is a neighbor playing a joke. Until he finds her diaries hidden away in an old trunk. As he begins to turn the brittle, dusty pages, the spirit of Sarah Ferguson seems to fill his life. Sarah's first entry is dated 1789 as she writes of her harrowing journey from her native England, having fled the brutality of her aristocratic husband. Settling in Massachusetts, Sarah finds an unfamiliar land seething with the turbulence of the Indian wars. As she builds her home in the wilderness and meets a man who will transform her life, Sarah finds freedom from the torment of her past. His name is Francois de Pellerin, a French nobleman adopted by Indians and drawn into the battle for the growing nation. Their fateful union is a testament to a love so powerful it reaches across the centuries. And for Charlie Waterston, their story gives him the courage to let go of his past, and the freedom to grasp a future that is right before his eyes. In The Ghost, Danielle Steel brilliantly interweaves past and present, bringing to life two stories, centuries apart, in a timeless novel of courage, healing, and love.
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"this book was sooo good. and it was really inspring. it shows u that no matter how hard u think ur life is someone has it worse nd that u can live through it " — Mindy (5 out of 5 stars)
"this book was sooo good. and it was really inspring. it shows u that no matter how hard u think ur life is someone has it worse nd that u can live through it "
" Really liked it, might read it again sometime "
" I absolutely love this book. I have read it many times and will read it many more[once i acquire a new copy] "
" One of the first Danielle Steel book that I read. Back when I was young, innocent, dreamy and naive. "
" First Danielle Steel book I read! It was a good one. Romance, but good plot. "
" It was okay. I don't really like love stories, I was hoping it would be a scary book (it was missing the jacket).Divorced people learning to love again through the past.Yep. "
" It's a good book, it interweaves past and present.Loved Sarah and Francois, their story was so romantic! "
" This book reads like it was written for firth graders. I read it quickly, but with disdain. "
" a very good novel, keeps the reader bound till the end "
Danielle Steel has been hailed as one of the world’s most popular authors, with almost a billion copies of her novels sold. Her many international bestsellers include many acclaimed novels. She is also author of His Bright Light, the story of her son Nick Traina’s life and death; A Gift of Hope, a memoir of her work with the homeless; Pure Joy, about the dogs she and her family have loved; and the children’s books Pretty Minnie in Paris and Pretty Minnie in Hollywood.
Joseph G. “Joe” Grifasi is an American actor of film, stage, and television. Grifasi briefly attended Canisius College in Buffalo before joining the US Army. He went on to study at the Yale School of Drama, where he met his future wife, the jazz soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom. Grifasi has played two separate members of the Baseball Hall of Fame who played for the New York Yankees. In The Bronx Is Burning, set in 1977, he played Yogi Berra.
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