Danielle Steels fortyseventh bestselling novel is very much about the tidesof our times changes and responsibilities in the workplace pull two people indifferen... » 

Danielle Steels fortyseventh bestselling novel is very much about the tidesof our times changes and responsibilities in the workplace pull two people indifferent directions sweeping them into new lives and changed worlds.Irresistible ForcesFor fourteen years Steve and Meredith Whitman have sustained a marriage ofpassion and friendship despite the demands of two allconsuming careers.Meredith an investment banker has achieved partnership in one of WallStreets top firms. Steve A gifted physician chose an urban trauma ward overthe big money he could have earned elsewhere. The only thing missing in theirlives is children. Steve longs for them. But Meredith keeps putting offmotherhood saying she isnt ready and doesnt have time. Not yet. Especiallynow that she has been offered an extraordinary opportunity a chance to reachfor the brass ring in San Francisco three thousand miles away. Meredith isthrilled and surprised when Steve urges her to accept a top position at anexciting young hightech company. Traditionally mens careers forces familiesto move to new cities compelling their wives to abandon friends home andlives to follow. But Steve is more than willing to uproot himself. Saying helljoin her as he can find a new job himself they can begin their family at last.Neither Steve nor Meredith had reckoned on the frustrations of a bicoastalmarriage as Steves job keeps him in New York for months longer than planned.Weekends together their lifeline fall prey to their hectic schedules. Alonein San Francisco Meredith is spending long hours at the office with her bosscharismatic entrepreneur Callan Dow. Steve working late shiftsat the hospitalgrabbing an occasional dinner with a new colleague a doctor raising a daughteron her own. Almost unnoticed Steve and Meredith have begun living separatelives in increasingly separate worlds. And despite the best of intentionsirresistible forces begin t «