About the Author
DANIELLE STEEL has been hailed as one of the world’s most popular authors, with over 590 million copies of her novels sold. Her many international bestsellers include Big Girl, Southern Lights, Matters of the Heart, One Day at a Time, A Good Woman, Rogue, Honor Thyself, Amazing Grace, and other highly acclaimed novels. She is also the author of His Bright Light, the story of her son Nick Traina’s life and death. Visit the Danielle Steel Web Site at www.daniellesteel.com.
Family Ties is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2010 by Danielle Steel
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Delacorte Press,
an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group,
a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
DELACORTE PRESS is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc., and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Steel, Danielle.
Family ties : a novel / Danielle Steel.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-440-33916-8
1. Women architects—Fiction. 2. Single women—Fiction. 3. Orphans—Fiction. 4. Parenting—Fiction. 5. Parent and adult child—Fiction. 6. Domestic fiction. I. Title.
PS3569.T33828F36 2010
813′.54—dc22
2010001938
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