Once in a Lifetime

Millions adore Daphne Fields, because she shares their passion, their pain, their joy and their sorrow. But America's most popular novelist remains a closed book to the world, guarding her life with a fierce privacy that no reporter can crack.

Her life hides a myriad of secrets: the husband and daughter she lost in a fire, and the son who barely survived it and will be deaf forever. Behind the bestsellers are the victories and the defeats of facing life as a woman alone, and of helping her son meet the challenges of his deafness.

Daphne is a strong woman who will not accept defeat, or help from anyone — until she finds she can no longer face it alone, and must choose between two men. Danielle Steel's novel was first published in 1982.