NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Danielle Steel comes the gripping story of a woman who loses everything—her husband, her home, her sense of self and safety, and her freedom. Sydney Wells’s perfect life with her wealthy, devoted husband vanishes when he dies suddenly in an accident. Widowed at forty-nine, she discovers he has failed to include her in his will. With Andrew’s vicious daughters in … Andrew’s vicious daughters in control of his estate, and no home or money, Sydney finds a job in fashion, despite her own designer daughters’ warnings. Naïve, out of her element, and alone in a world of shady international deals and dishonest people, she is set up by her boss and finds herself faced with criminal prosecution.
What happens when you lose everything? Husband, safety, protection, money, and reputation gone, faced with prison, Sydney must rebuild her life from the bottom to the top again, with honor, resourcefulness, and dignity. Sydney finds herself, as well as courage and resilience. Taking life by the horns, she revives her own career as a talented designer, from New York to Hong Kong, risking all in an exotic, unfamiliar world. She is determined to forge a new life she can be proud of.
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A wonderful story with lots of ups and downs. I read this in one sitting. Sidney is suddenly widowed and practically homeless when she learns her husband never updated his will, so his horrible children from his first marriage inherit everything. She tries to reenter the working world, but as a fashion designer before computers…..it’s a challenge. Her daughters in the story are also both fashion designers and it’s really fun to read a story set in this world–one Danielle knows well as several of her daughters are designers too. Very fun story!
A little long and drawn out but good
This book had me interested from page one, could not put it down, story was definitely different. Wonderful characters. Great.
Wonderful story and author.
This will tear your up first you think this is the guy but no this one is a mean man only thinking of him self the next guy She Mets is a keeper loved this book so much she is a strong women and yes I cried a lot read this book you will love it just as much as I did
Easy to read, great story.
The fall from grace is a great book which has a family of a married couple with children from out of marriage.
The husband end up dying and living his wife in a mess by not updating his will which was prenup agreement.
His wife had a fashion designing cerficate as well as her girls are both in the industry. End up meeting someone who is a founder of one of the firms and meets edward Chin who was coming from hong kong in a family dat deals with such business who has been learning and getting the experience, she ends up in jail and find her self not being helped by her employer and got a layer who charged R25000 for service. End up getting a house arrest. Whe becomes a partner with edward in the new venture and moved to hong kong for new shop and finds love again.
Just goes to show with a little hard work you can do anything. Main character had to do more than most to succeed but she did it.
It kept my interest, and that’s what I want in a book!
Fall from grace by Danielle Steel
Starts out with Syndey and she’s lost her husband, had to sell/rent her one bedrrom apartment in Paris and on the way back, plane almost crashed. Paul kept her calm and she learns he’s in the fashion industry. She gave all that up when she married her husband and now it’s been over 16 years later that she finds she has lost everything, even more than she thought.
Her husband never updated the will so everything went to his daughters from a previous marriage. She and her two daughters got nothing. Less than a month to leave, she rents an apartment in NY and calls Paul and he hires her although her daughters are dead set against her working for him-he just copies his designs from others.
Love fashion industry as I still design my own sweaters and patterns. She gets to travel to find out other things she’s never learned about the fashion in todays world of computers and different fabrics.
When she gets to the point where she wants to die-she’d be worth more to her daughters when she was dead, i can see this happening but you have to be strong.
Everything seems to be too well, I feel she’s being used-her name in the industry…
Wow so much happens and it’s not how you think it will all end.
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).
As a Danielle Steele fan I found this book to be entertaining and a good read.
Sydney Wells is leading the good life with a wealthy husband. When he dies she learns that she is left with almost nothing and has to move out of her house. She moves into a small apartment and tries to get back into the fashion industry where she worked before her marriage. Her new employer takes advantage of her and she may lose even more than the little she has now. Will she lose everything??
Another DS winner
Excellent as all of her work. HIGHLY recimmend