This is the story of a young woman who sacrifices everything in her own life to raise her nephew and neices after her sister and her husband are killed in a plane crash. As the children become adults, she (Annie) finds a life of her own.

anyone who enjoys a good character study and a fast, enthralling read.

the character of Ted and how he was deceived by Pattie.
I think Pattie is one of the most dead-on character portraits I've ever read.

the abrupt ending, but I wanted the story to go on and that isn't always a bad thing.

read another by Danielle Steel. She is quite a good storyteller and I almost always end up caring about her characters.

like Annie finally finds her way.

knows how to tell a story in a way that makes me keep reading. I read this in 2 days.

it is a good story that made me care about what happened to the characters.

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