Legacy: A Novel

Danielle Steel

Sep 2010 · Sold by Delacorte Press

About this ebook

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Danielle Steel's Hotel Vendome.

This compelling, centuries-spanning novel brilliantly interweaves the lives of two women—a writer working in the heart of modern academia and a daring young Sioux Indian on an incredible journey in the eighteenth century. The result is an unforgettable story of courage in the face of the unknown.
 
LEGACY
 
At the age of thirty-eight, Brigitte Nicholson has a job she likes, a man she loves, and a book she’s writing that she will finish—someday. Someday is Brigitte’s watchword. Someday she and Ted will clarify their relationship. Someday she will stop playing it so safe. Then, on a snowy day in Boston, Brigitte’s life is jolted and everything she has counted on changes. As she struggles to plot a new course, Brigitte agrees to help her mother on a family genealogy project and makes a stunning discovery that reaches back to the French aristocracy. How did Brigitte’s mysterious ancestor Wachiwi, a Dakota Sioux, travel from the Great Plains to the French court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette? How did she come to marry into Brigitte’s family? What is the truth behind the tantalizing clues in the fragmented, centuries-old records? Traveling from South Dakota to Paris, following the threads of Wachiwi’s life, Brigitte finds herself in the forefront of her own story. With a powerful family legacy coming to life around her, someday is no longer in the future. Instead, in Danielle Steel’s mesmerizing novel, someday is now.

Ratings and reviews

This was my first time reading Danielle Steel. I didn't really like it. The book was boring. it started out interesting and then just became very bland. The main character seems to be very boring and pathetic and not exciting at all. Usually I like books with brave, interesting, sexy characters, and in this one it seems like Danielle Steel wants them to be as boring as could be. I am on the last chapter and i literally had to skip 4 pages because there was nothing interesting on it. Plus she repeats herself ALOT, which is very annoying. I usually read Sandra Brown and I think I will stick to her books.

THIS is one that would make a great film.... I can just see the cinematography of going from the modern day, back to the wild west, Paris, back to today... colorfully written.

Fantastic !!! Love it very much ! Sure l will read it again and again, Send my love to ms, d.s. Admire her so much !

About the author

Danielle Steel has been hailed as one of the world’s most popular authors, with over 650 million copies of her novels sold. Her many international bestsellers include Country, Prodigal Son, Pegasus, A Perfect Life, Power Play, Winners, First Sight, Until the End of Time, The Sins of the Mother, and other highly acclaimed novels. She is also the author of His Bright Light, the story of her son Nick Traina’s life and death; A Gift of Hope, a memoir of her work with the homeless; Pure Joy, about the dogs she and her family have loved; and the children’s book Pretty Minnie in Paris.