The Gift - Danielle Steel

On a June day, a young woman in a summer dress steps off a Chicago-bound bus into a small midwestern town. She doesn’t intend to stay. She is just passing through. Yet her stopping here has a reason, and it is part of a story you will never forget.

The time is the 1950s, when life was simpler, people still believed in dreams, and family was, very nearly, everything. On a tree-lined street in the heartland of America an extraordinary set of events begins to unfold. A happy home is shattered by a child’s senseless death, a loving marriage starts to unravel, and a stranger arrives – a young woman who will touch many lives before she moves on. She and a young man will meet and fall in love. Their love, so innocent and full of hope, helps to restore a family’s dreams. And all of their lives will be changed forever by the precious gift she leaves them.