Rendez-vous

Paris Armstrong never saw it coming. With two grown children and a lovely home in Connecticut, Paris was happy with her marriage, her family, her life. So when her husband of twenty-four years took her by the hand and said they needed to talk, Paris couldn't imagine what he was about to say."I want a divorce, " Peter tells her. Just like that, the husband she adored had dumped her for a younger woman. And just like that, Peter and his thirty-one year old lover had made their plans for their future, leaving Paris to pick up the pieces of a shattered life. Within days, Peter was gone. And Paris was left to figure out just exactly how she intended to get through the next day, let alone the rest of her life.

The task could not have been more painful. First came the tears. Then the excruciating attempts by well-meaning friends to "fix her up" -- as if she were a broken car -- with men who paled in comparison to Peter. Finally, Paris realized she was in a fight for her very survival. Drastic measures were called for. Even her shrink agreed. It was time to move] -- as far away as possible.

Saying goodbye to the world she knew and loved, Paris heads West, to San Francisco. And like the pioneers before her, she finds a rough and tumble frontier -- of being single in a world full of men who were too young, too old, too married, or too good to be true. For Paris, the list seemed endless...the charming commitment-phobe...the drunken Neanderthal...the young Frenchman-so adorably sexy she almost forgot about his age...With her dating track record veering between disappointing and disastrous, and her daughter now engaged to a man Paris's age, Paris finally comes to the conclusion that romance isjust not in her future. And that's when small circle of offbeat, loving friends becomes more important than ever before. And when an extraordinary man slips into her life, almost unnoticed. And when a life-altering decision Paris makes only for herself opens a whole new realm of possibilities -- proving that in the dating game, there is more than one way to win.

In a poignant, wickedly funny audiobook about getting dumped and getting over it, about tackling life with both courage and laughter, Danielle Steel marvelously explores what it means to start over...when starting over means finding the place you belonged all along.