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...

The master of financial suspense returns with a gripping thriller of money and murder set in the perilous world of private equity.

About to depart on his first vacation in years, Edward Wozny, a hot-shot young investment banker, is sent to help one of his firm's most important and mysterious clients. When asked to uncrate and organize a personal library of rare books, Edward's indignation turns to intrigue as he realizes that there may be a unique medieval codex hidden among the volumes, a treasure kept locked away for many years and for many reasons. As friends draw Edward into...

Hailed by the New York Times as an ''elegant and wonderfully witty writer,'' John Lanchester received the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Betty Trask Prize for his critically acclaimed debut, The Debt to Pleasure. In Capital, it's 2008, the height of the financial crisis, and someone is sending anonymous postcards to the affluent residents of Pepys Road, London. The cards read simply, ''We want what you have,'' leaving the recipients asking, Who's...

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,...

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...

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...

Investment banker Geri Molloy is shaken from a breakup-related malaise by an eccentric hedge fund manager in Hong Kong who embroils Geri in a high-stakes takeover that places her future at risk.