Dating Game

Paris Armstrong never saw it coming. With two grown children and a lovely home in Connecticut, she was happy with her marriage, her family and her life. So when her husband of twenty-four years says they need to talk, she cannot imagine what is coming. Peter wants a divorce - and he and his thirty-one-year-old lover have already made their plans.

Paris moves to San Francisco and, at her friends' urging, reluctantly re-enters the dating world: the charming commitment-phobe, the drunken Neanderthal, the young Frenchman so adorably sexy she almost forgot his age. With her track record veering between disappointing and disastrous, and her daughter engaged to a man Paris's own age, she concludes that romance is simply not in her future.

The secret, she discovers, is in finding the gifts in life's unexpected turns. Danielle Steel writes about getting dumped and getting over it, and about starting again whether you wanted to or not.