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Steel, Danielle, 1947-

Joy / Danielle Steel. - London : Macmillan, 2024. - 299 pages ; 24 cm.

Allegra Dixon has never felt loved or wanted. Rejected by her mother - a cold, beautiful socialite - and her absentee military father, Allegra's only escape from her lonely existence is through books and her own rich fantasy world. When she marries her childhood sweetheart, Shepherd Williams, it seems Allegra's life has finally taken a turn for the better. But as Shep is pulled into the dark world of military conflict, he is slowly destroyed by the horrors he has seen in combat, and becomes a dangerous man that Allegra doesn't recognise. Desperate for a fresh start, Allegra leaves a job she loves in New York and moves to California to start a new life. She takes a job as assistant to film score composer Henry Platt, a man with a reputation for creative genius and an intense, frenetic personality. As new love blossoms and washes away the pain of the past, Allegra begins to find her place in the world, and a feeling of joy that no one can take away from her.

ISBN: 9781529085716 1529085713 9781529085709 1529085705

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Abandoned children--Fiction.
Books and reading--Fiction.
Married people--Fiction.
Military spouses--United States--Fiction.
Life change events--Fiction.
Career changes--Fiction.
Composers--Fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology)--Fiction.
Joy--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Romance fiction.

Dewey Class. No.: 813.6