Palazzo
A Novel
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stirring novel about the legacies families inherit, create, and carry on, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel.
After her parents perish in a tragic accident, Cosima Saverio assumes leadership of her family’s haute couture Italian leather brand. While navigating the challenges of running a company at twenty-three, Cosima must also maintain the four-hundred-year-old family palazzo in Venice and care for her younger siblings: Allegra, who survived the tragedy that killed their parents with scars and a spinal injury, and Luca, who has a penchant for wild parties, pretty women, and poker tables.
Cosima navigates her personal and professional challenges with a wisdom beyond her years, but her success has come at a cost: Her needs are always secondary. She’s married to the business, and her free time is given to those who rely on her . . . until she meets Olivier Bayard, the founder of France’s most successful ready-to-wear handbag company. A brief conversation on her palazzo’s terrace turns into a tour of the Saverio workshop, and, fifteen years after her parents’ deaths, Cosima has found a confidant.
Now the business is financially stable and generating enough income for the Saverios to live comfortably. Then Luca loses a hefty sum at the casino, and his debt must be repaid with money or his life. Cosima, forced to bail him out, is given an impossible choice: List the palazzo, sell a third of the family business, or let Luca fend for himself. But is there another way to save everything she has fought for before it goes up in flames?
In Palazzo, Danielle Steel delivers a striking tale of family roots, ruin, and renewal.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Successful luxury-brand heiress Cosima Saverio is accustomed to putting her family’s legacy and the needs of her siblings first, but her life gets thrown into turmoil when her playboy brother’s get-rich-quick scheme goes south in a way that puts her entire family in danger. Along the way, Cosima finds a spark with French designer Olivier as they work together to fix the mess her family members created. Danielle Steel artfully makes that connection feel both mature and natural, which is part of what we love about her writing—plus, of course, the way she brings this story of love, birthright, and family honor to the fast-moving and dazzling world of high fashion. Glamorous and exciting, Palazzo is a multifaceted romance packed with setbacks and triumphs.
Customer Reviews
Palazzo
Loved the adventures of the family.
Very good book
Love this story of two sisters
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The Palazzo
An easy entertaining read, but a little predictable and formulaic.