In her 53rd bestselling novel Danielle Steel explores how a single shatteringmoment can change lives forever. <strong>The Kiss</strong> is at once a moving test... » 

In her 53rd bestselling novel Danielle Steel explores how a single shatteringmoment can change lives forever. The Kiss is at once a moving testament to thefragility of life and a breathtaking story about the power of love to heal tofree to transform and to make broken spirits whole.On a warm June evening a red doubledecker bus full of passengers speedsdown a London street. A few blocks away a man and a woman climb into alimousine reveling in a magical evening of dancing and champagne.As their driver pulls into an intersection the couple shares their firstsearching kiss. For a moment etched in time all stands still until in aflash of metal and glass their limousine is struck at full speed crushedunder the buss tremendous weight. And a long journey begins toward healingtoward hope toward dreams of an infinite future....Isabelle Forrester is the wife of a prominent Parisian banker who has longsince shut her out of his heart. For lonely years Isabelle has lived a life ofisolation pouring her passions into caring for her desperately ill son Teddyand into making their Paris home as happy as possible for her teenage daughterSophie.Isabelle allows herself one secret pleasure a longdistance friendship bytelephone with an American man a Washington power broker who travels in thehighest circles of politics and who like Isabelle is trapped in an emptymarriage.To Bill Robinson Isabelle is a godsend a woman of extraordinary beauty andintellectual curiosity a kindred spirit who touches him across the mileswith her warmth and gentle empathy. Their relationship is a gift a lifelinethat sustains them both through theheartache of marriages they cannot leave andwill not betray.Agreeing to meet for a few precious innocent days in London Isabelle and Billfind their friendship changing. Then amid the sudden crash of steel againststeel they are thrust onto a new path a path fraugh «