A stirring novel about the legacies families inherit, create, and carry on, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel.
After
her parents perish in a tragic accident, Cosima Saverio assumes
leadership of her family’s haute couture Italian leather brand. While
navigating the challenges of running a company at twenty-three, Cosima
must also maintain the four-hundred-year-old family palazzo in Venice
and care for her younger siblings: Allegra, who survived the tragedy
that killed their parents with scars and a spinal injury, and Luca, who
has a penchant for wild parties, pretty women, and poker tables.
Cosima
navigates her personal and professional challenges with a wisdom beyond
her years, but her success has come at a cost: Her needs are always
secondary. She’s married to the business, and her free time is given to
those who rely on her . . . until she meets Olivier Bayard, the founder
of France’s most successful ready-to-wear handbag company. A brief
conversation on her palazzo’s terrace turns into a tour of the
Saverio workshop, and, fifteen years after her parents’ deaths, Cosima
has found a confidant.
Now the business is financially stable and
generating enough income for the Saverios to live comfortably. Then
Luca loses a hefty sum at the casino, and his debt must be repaid with
money or his life. Cosima, forced to bail him out, is given an
impossible choice: List the palazzo, sell a third of the family
business, or let Luca fend for himself. But is there another way to save
everything she has fought for before it goes up in flames?
In Palazzo, Danielle Steel delivers a striking tale of family roots, ruin, and renewal.
