Heartbeat

Bill Thigpen, writer-producer of the number-one daytime TV drama, was so busy watching his career soar that he never noticed his marriage collapse. Nine years later he lives alone in Hollywood, and his life still seems reasonably sweet: top ratings, easy affairs, holidays with his two young sons. He tells himself it is all in balance.

Adrian Townshed thought she had everything — a job she liked as a TV production assistant and a handsome husband who was a rising star in his own field. Then she got pregnant, and her husband gave her an ultimatum: him or the baby. He meant it.

Bill and Adrian collide in a supermarket, and the sight of her makes him want more from his life: a woman he loves, a real family again. Neither of them wants the complication of another man's baby, of a new marriage, of starting over. Neither of them can help it. Danielle Steel follows a friendship as it deepens into love and meets the obstacles life sets in its way.