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Danielle Steel, America’s number-one best-selling novelist, has held millions spell-boundwith such novels as Family Album, Full Circle, and Changes. But with Secrets shetakes her readers beyond the tightly knit world of the family, into the heart ofthe nation’s most glamorous industry: television.

Here is the drama behind the creationof Manhattan, a first-of-its-kind prime-time television series produced by MelvinWechsler. Tempered by tragedy, seasoned by success, a man with a Midas touch, MelWechsler will assemble a dazzling cast:

Sabina Quarles at forty-five has managedto maintain–by dint of spunk and surgery–the body of an eighteen-year-old. Tough,spirited, and self-sufficient, she has survived twenty years in Hollywood, nevermarrying, never quite succeeding, never deigning to work in television.Yet Manhattan may bring her both the stardom she craves–and the security her very special needsrequire.

Jane Adams is an earthy thirty-nine-year-old beauty.Devoted to her children,dominated by her abusive and violent husband, forced to choose between her husbandand her acting career, Jane may find that her role in Manhattan has cost her everythingthat matters most.

Zack Taylor, the leading man, is a paragon of professionalism. Yet beyond the smooth good looks, the easy warmth, and the slick charm of the eligiblebachelor, he remains an enigma.

The charming ingenue, Gabrielle Thornton-Smith,seems to have appeared out of the blue. Beautiful, talented and on the brink of successat twenty-five, what can she have to hide?

And Bill Warwick, plucked from the ranksof struggling young actors, is now slated to be the nation’s new heartthrob.Buthe has lied about one issue in his background. Not only will Bill’s future hang inthe balance, but the success of the whole series may be jeopardized when he is forcedpublicly to confront the consequences of his little white lie.

Set in Los Angelesand New York, Secrets carries the reader behind the scenes into the making of a majortelevision series. Probing even deeper beneath the polished surfaces, Danielle Steelexplores the dilemmas both men and women, in and out of the searchlight of the media,confront today. She paints a vivid, compelling picture of a sophisticated world andthe surprisingly real problems of the people who inhabit it.

Here Danielle Steeldelineates her richest and most complex cast of characters, people forced togetherby extraordinary circumstances who must perform even when they're torn apart by theirdeepest secrets.