At seventeen, on the night of her mother's funeral,
Grace Adams is attacked. A young woman with secrets too
horrible to tell, with hurts so deep they may never
heal, Grace will not tell the truth about the attack.
She is beautiful enough for men to want her, but after a
lifetime of being a victim, now she must pay the price
for other people's sins. From the depths of an Illinois
women's prison to a Chicago modelling agency, and from
there to a challenging career in New York, Grace carries
the past with her wherever she goes. In healing her own
pain, she reaches out to battered women and children who
live a nightmare she knows only too well. When Grace
meets Charles Mackenzie, a New York lawyer, she has
found a man who wants nothing from her - except to heal
her, to hear her secrets, and to give her the family she
so desperately wants. But with happiness finally within
her grasp, Grace is at her most vulnerable - in danger
of losing everything to an enemy from her past, an enemy
bent on malice. Danielle Steel has written an
extraordinary women's story with rare insight and
power.Portraying the struggle to triumph over malice and
betrayal, she transforms a life of pain into a blessing
for others. Revealing both the stark reality of domestic
abuse and the healing power of love, Malice is more than
powerful fiction. It is a piece of life. |
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