2008, ISBN: 9781423114390

Transworld Publishers Limited. Good. 4.17(w) x 7.01(h) x 1.06(d). Paperback. 2008. 448 pages. Cover worn<br>In her thirty-seventh bestselling novel, Danielle Steel tells the compel… More...

Transworld Publishers Limited. Good. 4.17(w) x 7.01(h) x 1.06(d). Paperback. 2008. 448 pages. Cover worn<br>In her thirty-seventh bestselling novel, Danielle Steel tells the compelling story of a woman who must st ruggle to overcome a shattering betrayal, and the cruelest kind o f malice. At seventeen, the night of her mother's funeral, Grace Adams is attacked. It is not the first time, and a brutal crime ensues. And to everyone's horror, Grace will not tell the truth. She is a young woman with secrets too horrible to tell, with hur ts 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. Whatev er the outcome, Grace Adams will have to live with whatever happe ned during those terrible years. And after a lifetime of being a victim, now she must pay the price for other people's sins. From the depths of an Illinois women's prison to a Chicago modeling a gency to a challenging career in New York, Grace must carry the p ast with her wherever she goes. And in healing her own pain, she reaches out to battered women and children who live a nightmare s he knows all too well. When Grace meets Charles Mackenzie, a New York lawyer, she has found a man who wants nothing from her -- e xcept to heal her, to hear her secrets, and to give her the famil y she so desperately wants. But, with happiness finally within he r 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 e xtraordinary woman's story, portraying her struggle to triumph ov er malice and betrayal, and to transform a lifetime of pain into a blessing for others. Revealing both the stark reality of domest ic abuse and the healing power of love, Malice is more than super b fiction. It is a piece of life. Editorial Reviews A beautiful woman survives misfortune only to find her happy marriage threat ened by an unscrupulous press. A 10-week PW bestseller. (June) - Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly This darker-than-usual t ale from Steel tells of a battered woman who runs from her past. On-sale date: April 10. - Library Journal Steel returns (after last year's Five Days in Paris) with yet another tale of sufferin g and redemption (this time, perhaps, with a personal edge to it, reflecting Steel's reaction to an unauthorized 1994 biography). Grace Adams overcomes, in the patented Steel manner, a series of almost biblical-level adversities. As an adolescent Grace had be en repeatedly molested by her father. If she didn't submit, he wo uld beat her mother, then dying of bone cancer. After the funeral , in a particularly violent encounter, Grace, now 17, kills him i n self-defense. With almost no one to believe her story, since Da d was beloved by everybody in their small Illinois town, Grace go es to prison for two years. When she's released, she is harassed by a sleazy probation officer and drugged by a smarmy photographe r, who produces some compromising photographs of the encounter. S he eventually escapes to New York and gets a job at a law firm. S he also volunteers at a battered-women's center, where she is att acked and brutally beaten by the husband of a woman she had tried to help. Recuperating at Bellevue, the ever-resilient Grace find s Charles, her wealthy boss, at her bedside. (It was so unfair, h e thinks. She was so young, and so alive, and so pretty.) Inevita bly, they marry, have children, and lead a perfect Steel- like ex istence. But when Charles runs for the US Senate, reporters uncov er Grace's past. The media savage them, and Grace has a miscarria ge. Steel, who was herself recently manhandled in a biography tha t dwelt on Steel's harsh childhood and on her marriages to two co nvicted felons, gets her own back against the maliciousness of th e press (They went for the gut every time with a stiletto). There is an improbable, and typically upbeat, dénouement. Once again, Steel's incantational style, a melodic and slightly hypnotic cur rent, carries the reader swiftly through a string of god-awful cl ichés, outrageous events, and unlikely outcomes. For the devotee only. - Kirkus Reviews Praise for Danielle Steel Steel is one of the best!--Los Angeles Times Few modern writers convey the pa thos of family and material life with such heartfelt empathy.--Th e Philadelphia Inquirer Steel pulls out all the emotional stops. . . . She delivers!--Publishers Weekly What counts for the read er is the ring of authenticity.--San Francisco Chronicle - From t he Publisher ., Transworld Publishers Limited, 2008, 2.5, Casa Fiction. New. Brand New! Not Overstocks or Low Quality Book Club Editions! Direct From the Publisher! We're not a giant, faceless warehouse organization! We're a small town bookstore that loves books and loves it's customers! Buy from Lakeside Books!, Casa Fiction, 6, Disney Press, 2008. Trade paperback. New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 140 p. Contains: Illustrations, color. Audience: Children/juvenile., Disney Press, 2008, 6<