Accident

Despite Brad's frequent absences due to business meetings, Page Clarke considers herself fortunate to have a contented family and a loving marriage. She stays busy taking care of their teenage daughter Allyson and their seven-year-old son Andy at their home outside San Francisco.

At fifteen, Allyson is experimenting with different things. One weekend, rather of spending the evening with Chloe, the girls pretend to be going out with two older high school males. However, a Saturday night that was meant to be enjoyable turns tragic as their automobile strikes another vehicle head-on.

Page discovers Chloe's father, Trygve, who is divorced, in the hospital. Unable to reach Brad, she depends on Trygve for support throughout the long hours of questioning. Will Amy survive? Shall any one of them? Did the teens use alcohol? Take drugs? Who was in error? And what about her spouse? Without Brad by her side, Page feels her world begin to fall apart as she faces the possibility that Allyson won't make it through this, and even if she does, she may never be the same.

Danielle Steel draws us near to the characters whose lives are as familiar as our own—and who, like us, live in a world where everything can change in an instant—in an inspirational book that examines how many people are impacted by one terrible catastrophe and how they overcome it.