The Ranch

In her 39th best-selling novel, Danielle Steel brings to life the story

of three women, old roommates from college, who come together after

twenty years, one summer at The Ranch.They had been

inseparable in college, Mary Stuart, Tanya, and Zoe. But in the more

than twenty years that followed, the three had moved on with their

lives, settled in different cities, and found successful careers and new

roles as mothers and wives. By chance, each would find herself alone

for a few weeks one summer, wrestling with the present and the past. At a

sprawling ranch in the foothills of Wyoming's Grand Teton Range, the

three women come together and find courage, healing, and truth, and

reach out to each other once again.Despite the honesty they once

shared, now pretense between them runs high. Mary Stuart Walker,

married for twenty-two years to a Manhattan lawyer, kept herself busy

with volunteer work, and now masks the loneliness that consumes her

life. A year has past, and Mary Stuart still hasn't gotten over the

guilt, or the fear that her husband will never forgive her for their

son's death... Tanya Thomas, an award winning singer and rock star,

enjoys all the trappings of fame and success--a mansion in Bel Air,

legions of fans, and a broken heart. All the Grammy awards in the world

can't make up for the children she wanted but never had, the men who

have taken advantage of her, and just gone along for the ride, and still

are... Dr. Zoe Phillips has her hands full as a single mother to an

adopted two-year-old, and as a doctor at an AIDS clinic in San

Francisco. Predictably, as they all know, she is as liberal as she ever

was, and marriage was never a dream she coveted or shared with them.

Tending to her patients is a full-time job that leaves Zoe little time

for herself--until unexpected news forces her to reevaluate both her

future, and her current life.But despite the changes in their

lives, their friendship is still a bond they all treasure and share. For

each of the women, a few weeks at the ranch will bring healing and

release, as old hurts are buried, ancient secrets revealed, and love

replaced or renewed. In The Ranch, bestselling novelist Danielle Steel brings reality to the meaning of friendship, with dramas whose truths we all share.