In her twenty-eighth bestselling novel Danielle Steel portrays the full breadth of human emotions as she sweeps us back to a dramatic moment in history no-one will ever forget.

On the maiden voyage of the greatest ship ever built, the Titanic, Edwina Winfield was returning from her engagement trip to England with her fiance, her parents and five siblings.

In one fatal, unforgettable night, Edwina instantly becomes a woman mourning the loss of the man she loved, and mother to her five brothers and sisters. Her struggles to keep the family together go on for twelve long years, but as each child sets sail at last, to Hollywood, Europe, and elsewhere, Edwina finds her own life finally, and frees herself from the ghosts of those she loved and lost on the Titanic.

In this magnificent work that brings a new authenticity and immediacy to the Titanic disaster and its impact on those who survived, Danielle Steel is at the height of her enormous talent as one of the world's most respected and beloved writers.