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| Grace Adams has had a hard life. She was molested by her father whom she murders in self defense after the funeral of her beloved mother; after serving time for the murder she escapes a miserable post-jail existence and heads for New York, where she takes a job at a law firm and volunteers at a battered women's shelter. When the husband of one of the battered women brutally beats her, Grace awakens to find her boss from the law firm at her bedside declaring his love. The two marry and when he runs for the senate, the media savagely expose Grace's checkered past. Can love conquer all? | |
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| Height: | 6.8 in. |
| Width: | 4 in. |
| Thickness: | 1 in. |
| Weight: | 7.2 oz. |
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| In her 37th bestselling novel, Danielle Steel tells the compelling story of a woman who must struggle to overcome a shattering betrayal, and the cruelest kind of malice.At seventeen, the night of her mothers funeral, Grace Adams is attacked. It is not the first time, and a brutal crime ensues.And to everyones horror, Grace will not tell the truth. She is a young woman with secrets too horrible to tell, with hurts so deep they may never heal. She is also beautiful enough for men to want her no matter how much she does not want them. Whatever the outcome, Grace Adams will have to live with whatever happened during those terrible years. After a lifetime of being a victim, now she must pay the price for other peoples sins.From the depths of an Illinois womens prison to a Chicago modeling agency to a challenging career in New York, Grace must carry the past with her wherever she goes. And in healing her own pain, she reaches out to battered women and children who live a nightmare she knows all too well.When Grace meets Charles Mackenzie, a New York lawyer, she has found a man who wants nothing from her-except to heal her, to hear her secrets, and to give her the family she so desperately wants. But, with happiness finally within her grasp, and precious loved ones to protect, Grace is at her most vulnerable-in danger of losing everything to a vicious tabloid press and an enemy from her past, an enemy bent on malice at all costs.With rare insight and power, Danielle Steel writes this extraordinary woman's story, portraying her struggle to triumph over malice and betrayal, and to transform a lifetime of pain into a blessing for others. Revealing both the stark reality of domestic abuse and the healing power of love, Malice, is more than superb fiction. It is a piece of life. In her 37th novel, Steele tells the compelling story of a woman who must struggle to overcome a shattering betrayal and the cruelest kind of malice. Sexually abused on the night of her mother's funeral, 17-year-old Grace Adams surprises everyone when she will not reveal the identity of her attacker. Years later, after a lifetime of being a victim, Grace has happiness within her grasp, but a vicious tabloid and an enemy from her past threatens to destroy everything she has struggled to gain. | |
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| This darker-than-usual tale from Steel tells of a battered woman who runs from her past. On-sale date: April 10. Breitman A beautiful woman survives misfortune only to find her happy marriage threatened by an unscrupulous press. A 10-week PW bestseller. (June) Lopate | |
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