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The Ghost
The Ghost | Danielle Steel
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With a wife he loves and an exciting London-based career, architect Charles Waterston's life seems in perfect balance. Nothing in his comfortable existence prepares him for the sudden end to his ten-year marriageor his unwanted transfer to his firm's New York office. With nothing left to lose, Charlie takes a leave of absence from his job to drive through New England, hoping to make peace with himself. Christmas is approaching when Charlie leaves New York, heading to Vermont to ski. But a sudden, blinding snowstorm strands him in a small Massachusetts town. There, as if by chance, Charlie meets an elderly widow who offers to rent him her most precious possession: a remote, exquisite lakeside chateau. Hidden deep in the woods, it once belonged to a woman who lived and died there two centuries before. Her name was Sarah Ferguson. And from the moment Charlie sets foot inside the chateau's graceful depths, he feels her presence, and longs to know more about the life she led. It is Christmas Eve when Charlie first glimpses her, a beautiful young woman with jet black hair. He thinks it is a neighbor playing a joke on him, until he finds her diaries hidden away in an old trunk. As he begins to turn the brittle, dusty pages, Sarah Ferguson comes alive. Intrigued and unafraid, Charlie immerses himself in the diaries, eager to learn more about the woman for whom the house was built. Sarah's first entry is dated 1789, the year she arrived in America. Without self-pity or sentiment, she writes of her harrowing journey from her native England, having fled the brutality of her aristocratic husband. Settling in Massachusetts, Sarah finds an unfamiliar land seething with the turbulence of the Indian wars. Determined to start a new life in the vast new world, Sarah finds freedomand dangeras she builds her home in the wilderness and meets a man who will transform her life. His name is Franois de Pellerin, a French nobleman adopted by Indians and drawn into the battle for the growing nation. Their fateful union is a testament to a love so powerful it reaches across the centuries. And for Charlie Waterston, caught between Sarah's world and his own, their story is a giftone that gives him the courage to let go of his past, and the freedom to grasp a future that is right before his eyes. From the Paperback edition.
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katiekat311
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Less redundancy than her last book I read, but still present. I HATE that she starts sentences with “and”. You can‘t get attached to characters because of lack of development..BUT honestly I was roped into the storyline. The historical side story interspersed and paralleled with her characters current situations was engaging. I didn‘t hate it and it was the perfect first, post surgery book.

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katiekat311
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Broken hand, post surgery, day 1. Got taken off teaching until first post-op appointment and was told to hardly do anything…don‘t worry doc, I have QUITE the TBR pile.🤦🏻‍♀️❤️‍🩹

Caroline2 Ouch!! I hope you have a swift recovery. 💐 2y
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prasiddhi101090
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Made two of these #HarryPotter #Bookmarks.
The book I am reading/re-reading is The Ghost by #DanielleSteel. It happens to be my favorite book and the one I draw strength from. The character of Sarah Ferguson is so solid it is as if she is real. I recommend all to read this one. Stars raised to the power of infinity for this book.