Blue

Blue is a 2016 standalone novel by Danielle Steel. Ginny Carter had a marriage to a star anchorman, a three-year-old son and a career in television news, until a freeway accident two days before Christmas took all of it. Years later she works for a human rights organisation, moving between the worst places in the world and returning to an apartment that never feels like home.

On the anniversary of the crash she meets Blue Williams, a thirteen-year-old boy sleeping rough, abandoned by his family and long out of school. He bolts from her again and again, and each time he comes back. Out of that wary back-and-forth the two build something that starts to look like a family.

The novel turns on what Blue has not told her. Steel handles homelessness, abuse and grief more directly than in most of her books, and the result is quieter and more sombre than her usual romances.