02250cam a2200385 i 4500 2438527093 TxAuBib 20250708120000.0 250102s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2025009023 9780593498736 acid-free paper 0593498739 acid-free paper TxAuBib rda Steel, Danielle, author. A mother's love : a novel / Danielle Steel. First edition. New York : Delacorte Press, [2025] 271 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "On the occasion of her daughter Valerie's wedding and her upcoming fiftieth birthday, bestselling author Halley Holbrook finds herself reflecting. Raising twins Valerie and Olivia is her proudest accomplishment. Halley has been able to give them the loving and safe home she never had, having survived a childhood so traumatic she's never talked about it with her girls. Long ago, Halley decided to live in the sunlight of the present, not the dark shadows of the past. After Valerie moves to Los Angeles with her producer husband, and Olivia follows to remain close to her sister, Halley is empty-nesting in her Fifth Avenue apartment. Facing her first holiday alone in years, she books a trip to Paris. On the flight over, she meets charming Bart Warner, and the two become fast friends. Halley hasn't dated since her partner died three years ago, yet she quickly begins to feel more like herself. But when a cunning thief makes off with her handbag and then begins to harass her, it reawakens old ghosts from her past"-- Provided by publisher. 20250708. Women authors Fiction. Empty nesters Fiction. Love, Maternal Fiction. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Twins Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Theft Fiction. Psychic trauma Fiction. Domestic fiction. lcgft Romance fiction. lcgft TXAAL