The Dark Side

Zoe Morgan learned early how fragile a family can be. Her younger sister fell ill and died, and her parents poured everything into those final days. Once the loss had settled, their marriage ended in divorce. Zoe grew up with all of that lodged inside her. She turned the pain into ambition. Zoe worked hard at school and built a career in the nonprofit world, where her deep compassion for disadvantaged children gave her a purpose. She held herself to a very high standard, as though discipline and goodness could keep another heartbreak away. Then Zoe falls in love and has a child of her own, and she is determined to be a perfect mother. But the wounds she thought were long healed begin to stir again. They pull her toward a place she is afraid even to imagine. Haunted by what she lived through as a girl, Zoe is soon caught in a race against time. This novel from Danielle Steel is a psychological suspense story about motherhood, memory and the cost of trying to be flawless.