Secrets
Danielle Steel
Language: English
Pages: 442
ISBN: 0440176484
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Danielle Steel, America’s number-one best-selling novelist, has held millions spell-bound with such novels as Family Album, Full Circle, and Changes. But with Secrets she takes her readers beyond the tightly knit world of the family, into the heart of the nation’s most glamorous industry: television.
Here is the drama behind the creation of Manhattan, a first-of-its-kind prime-time television series produced by Melvin Wechsler. Tempered by tragedy, seasoned by success, a man with a Midas touch, Mel Wechsler will assemble a dazzling cast:
Sabina Quarles at forty-five has managed to maintain–by dint of spunk and surgery–the body of an eighteen-year-old. Tough, spirited, and self-sufficient, she has survived twenty years in Hollywood, never marrying, never quite succeeding, never deigning to work in television. Yet Manhattan may bring her both the stardom she craves–and the security her very special needs require.
Jane Adams is an earthy thirty-nine-year-old beauty. Devoted to her children, dominated by her abusive and violent husband, forced to choose between her husband and her acting career, Jane may find that her role in Manhattan has cost her everything that matters most.
Zack Taylor, the leading man, is a paragon of professionalism. Yet beyond the smooth good looks, the easy warmth, and the slick charm of the eligible bachelor, he remains an enigma.
The charming ingenue, Gabrielle Thornton-Smith, seems to have appeared out of the blue. Beautiful, talented and on the brink of success at twenty-five, what can she have to hide?
And Bill Warwick, plucked from the ranks of struggling young actors, is now slated to be the nation’s new heartthrob. But he has lied about one issue in his background. Not only will Bill’s future hang in the balance, but the success of the whole series may be jeopardized when he is forced publicly to confront the consequences of his little white lie.
Set in Los Angeles and New York, Secrets carries the reader behind the scenes into the making of a major television series. Probing even deeper beneath the polished surfaces, Danielle Steel explores the dilemmas both men and women, in and out of the searchlight of the media, confront today. She paints a vivid, compelling picture of a sophisticated world and the surprisingly real problems of the people who inhabit it.
Here Danielle Steel delineates her richest and most complex cast of characters, people forced together by extraordinary circumstances who must perform even when they're torn apart by their deepest secrets.
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In fact, why don’t we have the drink here afterwards?” “Perfect. I’ll pick you up at eight. All right?” “Fine. See you then, Mel.” It was a purr that made his heart race as he set down the phone. He went home to change and had his secretary make reservations at L’Orangerie. He picked Sabina up at exactly eight o’clock, and he was driving the Mercedes 600 himself, which he liked to do at night. It was a little less awkward, if he was spending the evening with a lady, and you never knew how or
never looked lovelier as she took a sip of champagne and then quietly watched him. She felt a powerful attraction to the man, and sensed that it was mutual. It was going to be a very interesting show for Sabina in a number of ways. Not just the part … but Mel … He reminded her that she would be leaving for Paris in about a month, for fittings with François Brae, and Sabina smiled with delight. She suddenly had a lot to look forward to. “Have you been to Paris before?” “Once. A long time ago.
was. She still had her suspicions about Zack Taylor. She herself went home for the night. The next morning she took a plane to San Francisco. The crew stayed in New York for Christmas. It would have been too expensive and complicated to fly them all home, and they had made plenty of plans. Before he left, Mel had organized a party for them at Maxwell’s Plum, and Gabby ran into Bill there, despite all her efforts to avoid him. “Slumming again?” He was slightly drunk, and he looked pale. But
face so as not to leave the unseen scars of the year before unprotected in the sun. The breasts similarly protected by small, damp gauze pads for the same reasons. The three surgeries she had endured had served her well and didn’t show. The first, at thirty-eight, later than she would have thought, just to smooth a small furrow from between her brows, and raise her eyelids to the exact location they had been ten years before. The second at forty-one, to enhance her breasts, and give them a
he’d get acquitted. “Yep. June ninth.” It seemed a lifetime away, yet he knew it would come much too quickly. “We’ll have just started our hiatus. Mine will be permanent by then.” “Stop saying that. You’ve been doing great things with your scenes lately. I’ve been watching you.” “I figure if I’m gonna go, I’ll go in style. At least maybe this way everyone will miss me.” He smiled ruefully at her and she shook her head at him. She was wearing her dark hair in a long silky braid down her back,
