The Wedding

Simon Steinberg and Blaire Scott are one of Hollywood's most admired couples. He is a major movie producer, she is an award-winning television writer, and they have kept their marriage intact for decades in a town where that rarely happens. Their three children are doing well on the surface: Samantha is a teenager hoping to break into modeling, Scott is a pre-med student, and Allegra is an entertainment lawyer. Each of them still faces the worries that any parent will recognize.

At twenty-nine, Allegra spends her days looking after the stars she represents. She talks clients through messy personal lives, negotiates big movie deals, and answers calls at every hour. Her work leaves almost no room for a private life of her own, until she meets a writer from New York and everything shifts. Before long she is organizing a September wedding at her parents' home in Bel Air.

As the date approaches, the scramble over details, the unexpected announcements, and the mounting nerves reveal the best and the worst in everyone involved. The Steinbergs are not the only ones under strain. Couples across the generations of the family are dealing with broken promises and fresh hopes, and the wedding begins to mean something larger than a single day.

For Allegra, it links the life she has had with the one ahead. For her parents, it recalls what has held the family together. For both families, it offers a chance at reconciliation and forgiveness. Danielle Steel uses the glamour of Hollywood as a backdrop for an ordinary family story about the hopes and fears that a wedding stirs up in people of every age.