NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In Danielle Steel’s gripping new novel a reclusive woman opens up
her home to her neighbors in the wake of a devastating earthquake setting off events that
reveal secrets break relationships apart and bring strangers together to forge powerful new
bonds. Meredith White was one of Hollywood’s most recognizable faces. But a personal tragedy
cut her acting career short and alienated her from her family. For the last fifteen years
Meredith has been living alone in San Francisco with two trusted caretakers. Then on a muggy
late summer day a massive earthquake strikes Northern California plunging the Bay Area into
chaos. Without a moment’s hesitation Meredith invites her stunned and shaken neighbors into
her mostly undamaged home as the recovery begins. These people did not even realize that movie
star Meredith White was living on their street. Now they are sharing her mansion as well as
their most closely kept secrets. Without the walls and privacy of their own homes one by one
new relationships are forged. For every neighbor there is a story from the doctor whose wife
and children fear him to the beautiful young woman dating a dishonorable man to the aspiring
writer caring for a famous blind musician. In the heart of the crisis Meredith finds herself
venturing back into the world. And thanks to the suspicions and the dogged detective work of a
disaster relief volunteer a former military officer named Charles a shocking truth about her
own world is exposed. Suddenly Meredith sees her isolation her estranged family and even her
acting career in a whole new light. Filled with powerful human dramas Neighbors is a
penetrating look at how our world can be upended in a moment. In a novel of unforgettable
characters and stunning twists acts of love and courage become the most powerful forces of
all.
