Worthy Opponents: A Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Danielle Steel comes a powerful novel about a woman running her family´s luxury department store and the wealthy investor who threatens to take it over. Spencer Brooke always knew she was destined to be CEO of her grandfather´s business-the most respected and luxurious department store in New York City. Brooke´s has been at the center of every happy memory she has, but it hasn´t been an easy journey. Seven years after her father´s death, her life is very different from the days when she walked through the store with her grandfather as a young girl. She may be the owner of Brooke´s, but she´s also now a divorced single mother of twin boys. And with the ever-evolving landscape of the fashion industry comes new challenges for Spencer and the legacy she´s inherited. Mike Weston is known for making enormous profits by transforming small businesses into bigger, more successful ones. With his marriage at a breaking point and his children grown up, investing is where he thrives-where he can build something greater. And Brooke´s feels like the perfect opportunity. Yet the firm´s beautiful and savvy CEO turns down the offer before they even meet. Spencer has no interest in outside investors meddling in her family business; her grandfather never saw the need for them, and neither does she. She refuses to be tempted by Mike´s offer, despite her big dreams of expanding the store. But when bad luck strikes, suddenly she is backed into a corner. In Worthy Opponents, Danielle Steel crafts a thrilling story about a powerful woman-and her equally formidable opponent.