Crossings

Crossings is a standalone novel by Danielle Steel, first published in 1982 by Delacorte Press.

On the eve of the Second World War, Liane de Villiers sails from Europe with her husband Armand, a French diplomat whose loyalties and secrets she does not fully know. Aboard the ship she meets Nick Burnham, an American steel magnate travelling with a wife who despises him and a son he adores. The crossing throws Liane and Nick together, and the attachment formed in those few days follows both of them into the war.

The novel moves between France and America across the war years, with the Atlantic voyages that give the book its title marking each turn of the story. Steel writes the conflict of love, marriage and wartime duty against a real historical backdrop — occupied France, the Resistance, the American home front — and the price each character pays for the side they take.