On a June day, a young woman in a summer dress steps off a Chicago-bound bus into a small midwestern town.??She doesn't intend to stay.??She is just passing through.??Yet her stopping here has a reason and it is part of a story that you will never forget. — The time is the 1950s, when life was simpler, people still believed in dreams, and family was, very nearly, everything.??The place is a small midwestern town with a high school and a downtown, a skating pond and a movie house.??And on a tree-lined street in the heartland of America, an extraordinary set of events begins to unfold.??And gradually what seems serendipitous is tinged with purpose.??A happy home is shattered by a child's senseless death.??A loving marriage starts to unravel.??And a stranger arrives--a young woman who will

touch many lives before she moves on.??She and a young man will meet and fall in love.??Their love, so innocent and full of hope, helps to restore a family's dreams.??And all of their lives will be changed forever by the precious gift she leaves them.

The Gift, Danielle Steel's thirty-third best-selling work, is a magical story told with stunning simplicity and power.??It reveals a relationship so moving it will take your breath away.??And it tells a haunting and beautiful truth about the unpredictability--and the wonder--of life.

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