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A violent crime includes four lives in Danielle Steel’s sixtieth bestselling novel, the tale of the mother’s bravery, a family’s terror, and a triumph of human strength and dignity in the facial skin of overpowering odds.Outside the gates of a California prison, Peter Morgan is released after four long years and vows to redeem himself in the eyes of the young daughters he left out. Simultaneously, Carl Waters, a convicted murderer, is placed to the path of freedom with him. That night, 3 hundred miles south in Bay Area, police detective Ted Lee comes back home to a silent house; for twenty nine years, he's been residing for his job—and gradually receding of love together with his partner. Across town, in a exclusive Pacific Heights neighborhood, a mother tries to shield her three children from the panic rising within her.