NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The latest from Danielle Steel, Past
Perfect is a spellbinding story of two families living a hundred years
apart who come together in time in a startling moment, opening the door
to rare friendship and major events in early-twentieth-century
history.
Sybil and Blake Gregory have established a predictable, well-ordered
Manhattan life--she as a cutting-edge design authority and museum
consultant, he in high-tech investments--raising their teenagers Andrew
and Caroline and six-year-old Charlie. But everything changes when Blake
is offered a dream job he can't resist as CEO of a start-up in San
Francisco. He accepts it without consulting his wife and buys a
magnificent, irresistibly underpriced historic Pacific Heights mansion
as their new home.
The past and present suddenly collide for them in the elegant mansion
filled with tender memories and haunting portraits when an earthquake
shocks them the night they arrive. The original inhabitants appear for a
few brief minutes. In the ensuing days, the Gregorys meet the large and
lively family who lived there a century ago: distinguished Bertrand
Butterfield and his gracious wife Gwyneth, their sons Josiah and little
Magnus, daughters Bettina and Lucy, formidable Scottish matriarch
Augusta and her eccentric brother Angus.
All long since dead. All very much alive in spirit--and visible to the
Gregorys and no one else. The two families are delighted to share
elegant dinners and warm friendship. They have much to teach each other,
as the Gregorys watch the past unfold while living their own modern-day
lives. Within these enchanted rooms, it is at once 1917 and a century
later, where the Gregorys gratefully realize they have been given a
perfect gift--beloved friends and the wisdom to shape their own future
with grace from a fascinating past.
Past Perfect is Danielle Steel at her bewitching best, a novel for the
ages.
