Crossings- Danielle Steel

Description

The story begins in the tense summer before the outbreak of WWII. The ambassador of France has been called home from Washington. Crossing the Atlantic, he and his young American wife, Liane, meet Nick and Hillary Burnham. Nick owns one of the world's greatest steel empires; Hillary is a spoiled, sensual Boston beauty, for whom no marriage, and no one man, could ever be enough. The spark between Nick and Liane is instantaneous, but it is not admitted by either of them. Not until a second fateful crossing, when each is forced to flee France without family or spouse, do Liane and Nick confront the power- and the hopelessness- of their passion. On that dangerous voyage, suspended between two worlds, all is fair and beautiful, including their brief, bright love affair. But the crossing ends; Nick is still trapped in his charade of a marriage by his love for his son, Johnny, and Liane is tied by love and loyalty to the husband she left behind in France.