Other recent bestsellers include Finding Ashley, The Affair, Neighbors, All that Glitters, Expect a Miracle, Royal, and Daddy’s Girls, all of which have leapt to the top of the New York Times bestseller list, the Wall Street Journal list, and comparable best seller lists around the world. WITHOUT A TRACE by Danielle Steel is a page-turning story of a man struggling to let go of his past life so he can finally be happy again and move forward. Repetitive, silly, unrealistic, far-fetched and without giving away character or theme storyline’s, I keep saying, “there’s no way that person would do that”. Also, the romantic relationship between Charles and Aud was very rushed and not all that believable to me. I wonder if the editors just take this super successful authors manuscript and send it to print without reading it first.

After this random hookup, the man is so enamored with this gorgeous younger woman that he lets his family think he is dead for MONTHS. Steel has been skating by for at least 15 years being one of the top authors in the US and this book is a prime example. A thought-provoking and moving story of second chances and living your best life from the world’s favourite storyteller, Danielle Steel.I started my journey with Steel last year, and with every book I was amazed with how much I loved how she wrote with ease, caught your attention in an instant, and held a story with twists and turns to the very end.

After gathering the courage to climb to safety, he starts to walk—bruised, bloody, and desperate for help.

In the story, it has a way of giving you a perspective on what life could be like if you just decided to get up and walk away. even though we were told over and over how wonderful he is and loyal and blah blah (book is all tell and zero show) oh and he admits to cheating on his wife throughout the marriage. I've read about 80%, and while I'm still interested in how the greedy wife is going to take him to the cleaners during their divorce and just what is going to happen to the hottie and her escaped ex. Then, one night as the money-grubber is having a party in their fancy chateau, he falls asleep at the wheel as he is coming home and drives off of a cliff into the ocean.