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Danielle Steel's forty-seventh bestselling novel is very much about the tides of our times, changes and responsibilities in the workplace pull two people in different directions, sweeping them into new lives and changed worlds——.
Irresistible Forces
For fourteen years, Steve and Meredith Whitman have sustained a marriage of passion and friendship - despite the demands of two all-consuming careers.  Meredith, an investment...

Christian Gillette is sent by the United States President to handle secret negotiations with senior capitalists in Cuba, without implicating the Oval Office. Soon Christian and his protégé, Allison Wallace, 1000 miles away, are in grave danger.

A wealthy man's bitter decline takes a sinister turn in this "slow-burn noir" of love, greed, and deceit in 1970s New York (Washington Post Book World). Neil Fox has made a fortune off the "head we win / tails you lose" venture capital deals negotiated by his brother, costing him almost everything, but money. His ex-wife and daughter spurn him, and he lost his young son years ago. Now he spends his days working as a lawyer at a small investment-banking...

HE'S GOT THE DEAL OF HIS LIFE...NOW HE JUST HAS TO SURVIVE IT When Louisiana-based CEO Mike Wilson needs to do a deal in a hurry, he turns to Wall Street investment bank Dyson Whitney. If they succeed in helping him buy transatlantic rival BritEnergy, there'll be a $70 million fee. If they fail, there's nothing. Rookie associate Rob Holding is thrown onto the team, doing due diligence at the investment bank. He quickly finds reason to suspect that...

Investment banker Conner Ashby is doing all right for himself--until he receives a wayward email and is plunged into a terrifying nightmare. It's a communication not meant for Conner's eyes about a company engaged in corporate fraud on a massive scale. With millions of dollars at stake and hell to pay if the truth comes out, whoever clicked the "send" button by mistake isn't about to take any chances. Following a trail of misdeeds that stretches nationwide,...

A crooked father and an honest son are the protagonists of this novel on money laundering. The father is Tiger Single, owner of a British investment house, laundering money for criminals. His dream is to see his son follow in his footsteps, but the son is honest and will not have anything to do with him--until the father's life is threatened.

"The Social Network meets The Wolf of Wall Street in The Underwriting, as it takes you behind closed doors into a post-recession world of sex scandals, power plays, and underhanded dealings. Todd Kent is young, hot, and on his way to the top of Wall Street when the eccentric founder of Hook, the popular new dating app, handpicks him to lead its IPO. Given just two months to pull it off, Todd and his investment banking team--brainy Neha, party-boy...

Paul Ross accepts a job working on the legal team for his billionaire father-in-law's hedge fund and must determine where his loyalties lie when a scandal and a regulatory investigation threaten the family business.

Having survived his rise to Chairman of Everest Capital, the world's largest private equity firm, and the ferocious attempts on his life that ensued, Christian Gillette finally seems safely perched atop the financial industry. David Wright, a young ambitious deal maker, reminds Gillette of himself just a few years back, and he's drawn to the thought of teaching him the ups and downs of the industry. But everything comes to a screeching halt when a...