Rogue - Danielle Steel

Being married to Blake had been an amazing adventure for Maxine. Brilliant, charismatic, and wholly unpredictable, Blake Williams made millions and grabbed headlines as a dot-com entrepreneur. His only shortcoming was as a husbandfirst his work and then his never-ending quest for fun kept him constantly on the move, far away from Maxine and his family. For five years Blake and Maxine have worked out an odd but amicable divorce, with friendly though infrequent visits, a yacht he lends her every summer, and three children they both adore. Blake enjoys his globe-trotting lifestyledating a succession of beautiful, famous, and very young womenwhile Maxine raises their kids in Manhattan and pursues her passion, working as a psychiatrist, a world-renowned expert on childhood trauma and adolescent suicide. Then everything changes....

For Maxine it starts when she falls in love with Dr. Charles West, a man who is everything Blake is notmature, grounded, and present. For Blake it begins when a devastating earthquake strikes near one of his palatial foreign homes and he sees hundreds of orphaned children in need of shelter. Now Blake wants Maxine in his life againas a partner in a humanitarian project that could change countless lives. For Maxine the choice is clear. But Blake s sudden transformationfrom carefree playboy to compassionate, responsible grown-upraises questions shes never managed to answer . . . and some shes afraid to ask. After all, Maxine is on the cusp of a new life, about to marry Charles, and almost certain that Blake Williams, aka the Rogue, is a man capable of doing anythingexcept change....

An unforgettable story of two people pursuing happiness from opposite directions, Rogue is a journey of choices and the amazing opportunities that come togetherjust when life seems to have been successfully rearranged at last.

ISBN: 9780593056769

Pages: 305

Trade paperback

Bantam Press, 2008

Good condition

B01