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Ruthless

Ruthless

Women's FictionContemporary Romance
Pages
272
Published
2026
Language
English

Synopsis

Ruthless is a new standalone novel by Danielle Steel, announced by Delacorte Press for 29 September 2026.

The publisher describes a journalist and the powerful man she is assigned to profile finding themselves on a collision course. Shipping magnate John Randall Williams is feared by his competitors and estranged from his only daughter, and is facing his first Christmas alone after the death of his wife when a chance meeting sets the story in motion.

Further details, including reader reception, will follow once the book is published.

Genres

Women's Fiction Contemporary Romance

About the author

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Danielle Steel

Danielle Steel — born Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel on 14 August 1947 in New York City — is an American novelist, best known for her best-selling romance fiction. The only child of John Schuelein-Steel and Norma da Câmara Stone dos Reis, she was raised in Paris and New York after her parents divorced, graduated from the Lycée Français at fifteen, and went on to study at the Parsons School of Design and New York University. Her first novel, Going Home, was published in 1973. As of...