Amazing Grace
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- £5.99
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- £5.99
Publisher Description
On a warm May night in San Francisco, a glittering, celebrity-studded crowd gathers for a charity event. Just minutes before midnight, the room begins to sway. Glass shatters, the lights go out, and people start to scream....
In the earthquake's aftermath, the lives of four strangers will converge:
Sarah Sloane, the beautiful wife of a financial star, watches her perfect world fall to pieces.
Melanie Free, award-winning singer, comes to a turning point in her career.
Everett Carson, a former war correspondent whose personal demons have demoted him to covering society parties, finds new purpose amid the carnage.
Sister Maggie Kent, a nun who does her best work in jeans and trainers, searches through the rubble - and knows instantly that there is much work to be done.
The city staggers back to life, and a chain reaction will touch each of the survivors as they find the amazing grace of new beginnings.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
With Bungalow 2 still on bestseller lists, Steel checks in with a Bay Area earthquake that shakes up the lives of three beautiful, talented yet somehow unfulfilled women. Sarah Sloane, 30-something wife of Seth, a wildly successful hedge fund entrepreneur, and mother of two, has planned to perfection a high-ticket charity auction. The only thing she hasn't counted on is the biggest seismic event to hit San Francisco since 1906 and the aftershocks it will cause in her marriage. Meanwhile, hot Grammy-winning 19-year-old singer Melanie Free, flown in to perform at the benefit, likewise finds her life overturned: following an on-stage triumph, Melanie throws away her platform shoes to assist disaster victims, admitting much to the annoyance of her pushy stage mother and her TV actor boyfriend that she always wanted to be a nurse. Sarah and Melanie face change with support from the 40-ish Sister Maggie Kent, a California nun whose good deeds draw the interest of recovering alcoholic and former AP photojournalist Everett Carson, who captures her in pictures. As marriage, faith and vows of chastity are tested, there's nothing complicated to spoil the romance. Steel delivers a sparkly story with an uplifting spiritual twist.