The lives of Danielle Steel: the unauthorized biography of America's [number] 1 best-selling author

With 215 million copies copies of her thirty-two novels in print worldwide, author Danielle Steel is an international household name. While readers have loved her books, few have known anything about the woman behind them—until now. Vickie L. Bane and Lorenzo Benet, both People magazine correspondents, relate the surprising and electrifying tale of a fascinating woman who has endured more dark and stormy episodes in her rise to celebrity and fortune than most of her own heroines. Raised in New York City, Danielle grew up solitary, lonely, and in ill health. At eighteen, she married a wealthy banker and shuttled between Manhattan, San Francisco, and Paris. After the marriage dissolved, she married men of a different stripe—first a convicted rapist and then a recovering heroin addict. Her rocky road to happiness led her through a third divorce, a bitter custody battle, and finally to what looks like a picture-perfect existence. Today she lives with her fourth husband as a devoted wife, mother of seven, a Christian Scientist—and a multimillionaire author. This exciting and controversial account of a life rarely revealed to the outside world could come straight from one of Danielle Steel's bestselling novels: exciting, rich, dramatic, and compelling.

Dressed to the nines and draped with diamonds, Danielle Steel is America's favorite author. She has enchanted readers with each of her 44 bestselling novels— and has a total of 350 million books in print! Now, this stunning, uncensored biography reveals how closely Danielle's fiction is based on real life— the rich men, the dangerous men, the heartbreak, the struggles, the triumphs...and the secrets too dark to tell.

Read all about:

* Her cruel, lonely childhood which became the inspiration for her novel Loving

* Her long-hidden marriage to a convicted rapist, the scandalous real story readers will recognize in her novel Now and Forever

* Her third husband, a handsome heroin addict, who, like the protagonist of Remembrance, broke her heart and nearly ruined her life

* Her lavish spending and opulent lifestyle in a San Francisco mansion

* The tragic death of her nineteen-year-old son in 1997

* The break-up of her fourth marriage— and the new man in Danielle Steel's life

With eight pages of photos!

Could anyone live a life as dramatic, tumultuous and romantic as a Danielle Steel heroine? Yes--Danielle Steel herself. Now, this stunning, uncensored new biography reveals how closely Danielle's fiction is based on real life--the rich men, the dangerous men, the heartbreak, the struggles, the triumphs and the secrets too dark to tell. Martin's Press.

A biography of best-selling romance novelist Danielle Steel, drawing parallels between her life and those of the characters who inhabit her fictional worlds