Lightning

As a partner at one of New York's most prestigious law firms, Alexandra Parkerbarely manages to juggle husband, career, and the three-year-old child she gavebirth to at forty. But Alex feels blessed with her life and happymarriage--until lightning strikes her. Suddenly a routine medical check-upturns her world upside down when tests reveal shattering news.

Sam Parker is a star venture capitalist, a Wall Street whiz kid, and is asproud of his longtime marriage to Alex as he is of his successful career. As amajor player in New York's financial world, Sam is used to being incontrol--until he is caught off guard by Alex's illness. Terrified of losinghis wife and family, and haunted by ghosts from his past, Sam is unable toprovide any kind of emotional support to Alex.

Unable to cope with her needs, Sam takes his distance from her, and almostovernight she and Sam become strangers. As lightning strikes them yet again, Sam's promising career suddenly explodes in disaster, and his very life andidentity are challenged. With their entire future hanging in the balance, Alexmust decide what she feels for Sam, if life will ever be the same for themagain, or if she must move on without him.

What happens to people when every aspect of their lives and well-being isthreatened? In "Lightning," Danielle Steel tells the story of a familythrust into uncertainty and explores whether the bonds of love and marriage canwithstand life's most unexpected bolts of lightning.