Danielle Steel Read Alikes
Danielle Steel writes stories for women. Frequently categorized as Romance, this label doesn't begin to cover the issues she addresses. Although they don't get a lot of critical support, her stories of women's lives, self determination, cancer, loss, adoption, divorce, mental illness, and touch enough people to sell 580 million books. She must be doing something right.
If you enjoy her books, you may also like the books and authors listed below.
- All or Nothing
- by Elizabeth Adler
- Lithe, leggy attorney and law professor Marla Cwitowitz is dying for some excitement in her life--that is, other than being the girlfriend of Al Giraud, private detective, sexy soul mate, and all-around best friend. So when she sees the potential for a crime-solving spree, she jumps at the chance to moonlight as a detective. Finally Marla's found the excitement she's been looking for. With her, it's always been all or nothing.
- Parting Gifts
- by Charlotte Vale Allen
- On the day of her husband's funeral, Kyra Latimer is confronted by a young woman with a small son. She claims to be Kyra's daughter. Even though she knows there is no way the young woman can be her child, Kyra takes pity on little Jesse, a boy who has obviously suffered from neglect. But when the boy's mother disappears, leaving Kyra to look after him, it soon becomes apparent that Jesse is no ordinary boy, and she begins to face the truth about the child and how he came to be in her life.
- Dark Angel
- by Sally Beauman
- On Halley's Comet night, 1910, a violent death throws a giant shadow over three generations of the Cavendish dynasty. At the centre of events is the beautiful and dangerous Constance, who casts a spell - which may be a curse - on all the sons of the family. Following the destruction of two World Wars - and the passions, deceits and hatreds of the intervening peace - it is the coruscating power of Constance's personality, and the sinister secret at the heart of her life, which will determine if Victoria, last of the Cavendishes, is to inherit happiness or misery.
- Love in Another Town
- by Barbara Taylor Bradford
- Jake and Maggie, each fleeing a failed marriage, meet and fall in love, but their pasts provide obstacles.
- Rivals
- by Jilly Cooper
- In Jilly Cooper's sparkling outrageous novel of life behind the television screen, her ingenuity and mastery of social innuendo is at full throttle. Reputations ripen and decline, true love blossoms and burns, marriages are made and shattered, and sex raises its head at almost every throw as, in bed and boardroom, the race is on to capture the Cotswold Crown.
- Long Time, No See
- by Susan Isaacs
- Judith's life has changed. She now has her doctorate in history. Her workaday hours are spent at St. Elizabeth's College, mostly squandered in history department shriek-fests. She is also a widow. Her husband Bob died one half-day after triumphantly finishing the New York City Marathon in four hours and twelve minutes. And although twenty years have passed without seeing him, she still cannot get her former lover, Nelson Sharpe of the Nassau County Police Department, out of her system.
- Acts of Love
- by Judith Michael
- This novel spans the pastoral beauty of the Pacific Northwest . . . the glitter of Broadway . . . the spectacular vistas of Sydney, Australia . . . and the myriad acts of love that will reunite a lost woman with her dreams, her destiny, and the one man who truly believes in her talent - and in their love. . . .
- Daybreak
- by Belva Plain
- The doctor's office is cool, white, sterile. But the doctor's words are searing: blood tests prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Margaret and Arthur Crawfield's beloved, dying son is not their child. Now they must face Peter's death and the shock of having a son they have never met. Grieving, yet compelled, they begin a search that will tear two families apart.
- Then Came Heaven
- by Lavyrle Spencer
- A grief-stricken widower learns to open his heart again. As friends and relatives rally around the family in the dark days and weeks that follow, there is one person who is unable to express what the loss means to her. Sister Regina has always felt a special affinity for the family. Yet her religious vows prevent her from becoming too close to them, even in their time of need. Time passes, and Sister Regina and Eddie Olczak continue to cross paths. Deep inside, they realize there is something between them. Thrilled and secretly frightened, they both must summon the courage to look within their hearts and make their own choices. Powerful, moving, and deeply affecting.
- No Angel
- by Penny Vincenzi
- Set against the background of first the belle epoque, that Edwardian era of immense luxury and immense social deprivation, moving into the horrors of the First World War and finally the outrageous glamour of the twenties, No Angel is a study in personal power, in family politics and the conflict between right and expediency; it is also a very great love story.