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    Never Too Late: A Novel
    Never Too Late: A Novel
    Never Too Late: A Novel
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    Never Too Late: A Novel

    By Danielle Steel

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    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Danielle Steel, a stirring novel about a woman striking out on her own after loss as her adult daughters try to find their own independent paths in life.

    Kezia Cooper Hobson, recently widowed, arrives in New York from San Francisco. Determined to make a fresh start, she has just completed the sale of her Pacific Heights home, not to mention her husband’s venture capital firm, and in doing so, is also freed from her responsibility as a board member of the company. Bringing with her only a few personal treasures, she is excited to move into the blank slate of a beautiful midtown penthouse, in the city that she has always loved. It is also where her two adult daughters now live.

    As Kezia settles into her new apartment, she meets her movie-star next-door neighbor, Sam Stewart, whose terrace borders hers. Just a couple of weeks after she arrives, however, a devastating crisis strikes New York City. Kezia and Sam find themselves connecting over their strong impulse to help those in need. As they share a life-changing experience of volunteering, a bond is sparked and a friendship is formed.

    Kezia’s daughters, Kate and Felicity, are taken aback by their mother’s new friendship, both more focused on their own love lives than hers. But Kezia is learning that the changes she’s making are just what she needs to open new horizons.

    In this powerful and moving new novel, Danielle Steel illuminates the importance of human connection and embracing brave change, proving it’s never too late for a brand-new start.
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    PublisherDell
    Release dateMar 5, 2024
    ISBN9780593498415
    Never Too Late: A Novel
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    Danielle Steel

    Danielle Steel has been hailed as one of the world's most popular authors, with over 650 million copies of her novels sold. Her many international bestsellers include Property of a Noblewoman, Blue, Precious Gifts, Undercover, Country, Prodigal Son, Pegasus, A Perfect Life, and other highly acclaimed novels. She is also the author of His Bright Light, the story of her son Nick Traina's life and death; A Gift of Hope, a memoir of her work with the homeless; and the children's books Pretty Minnie in Paris and Pretty Minnie in Hollywood.

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      This is the second book I've read recently by Ms. Steel that makes me think there is a ghostwriter or multiple ghostwriters are creating her newer books. (According to Google, there are no ghostwriters, only assistants!)

      This book does hit all the correct buttons for a romance...very formulaic, but with a very creative story. This time, there are three romances to watch. Two sisters and their mother!


      I was a little put off by Ms. Steel using an almost exact copy of 9-11 to push her idea of a sort of 'meet cute' situation.

      What truly drove me to distraction was the repetitiveness that shows up not only in the same book but sometimes she repeats herself on the same page. It does make for a lot of filler.

      *ARC supplied by the publisher Delacorte Press/Penguin Random House, the author, and NetGalley.

      A fine, fast read for the beach.

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    Never Too Late - Danielle Steel

    Chapter 1

    Kezia Cooper Hobson flew from San Francisco to New York in first class, with four big suitcases that held the last of her things she was bringing to New York. Everything had been sent ahead weeks before, her clothes, all her mementos, her papers and personal treasures. Her furniture and art were due to arrive at the end of August. She’d been living at the Ritz-Carlton in San Francisco for the last month, while she concluded the sale of both her Pacific Heights home and her share of the venture capital firm she had inherited from her husband, Andrew Hobson, when he had died of Covid-19 five years before, after a business trip to China. Twenty years older than Kezia, he was seventy-five at the time, vital, healthy, active, handsome, successful, and youthful for his age. The virus had hit him hard and he was dead in five days. He was a wonderful person from a wholesome Midwestern background. He had gone west to Stanford for college and business school, established his groundbreaking business in San Francisco, and remained there.

    Andrew Hobson had been one of the legends of early venture capital and one of its innovators in high-tech and biotech investments.

    The firm he had founded originally with two partners had been bought by a newer, larger venture capital firm, since Andrew’s partners had been older than he and were now well into their eighties. The life had gone out of Weintraub, Mills, and Hobson once Andrew was gone, with his incredible energy and constant daring new ideas. One of his partners was ill now, the other eager to retire, and the offer they received for the firm had come at the right time. Kezia had been active on the board since Andrew’s death.

    Originally from a small town in Vermont, the only child of a widowed and dedicated country doctor, Kezia had shared a thrilling life with Andrew. She had met him at a high-tech medical conference she went to in San Francisco, and married him not long after that, when she was thirty-five. The twenty years they had been married had been extraordinary, and profoundly happy. He had shown and taught and shared things with her that she would never have experienced otherwise. San Francisco had been the perfect small city to bring up their two daughters, with an agreeable cultural life and active business life for him of major international proportions with important investments in Asia, and good schools for their two girls. But once widowed at fifty-five, she found the city small and lifeless and limited. It was a lonely life for her. Everyone in her social circle was married, many of the men to younger women, much younger than Kezia by then. Her girls, Kate and Felicity, had gone east to college and never moved back to San Francisco. They loved living in New York, so Kezia traveled there frequently, to see them. She was bored with the opera and ballet boards she had served on for years. It all felt different as a widow. She felt like the odd man out with her married friends, and the city was just too small and provincial to provide an interesting life for her as a single woman. She could see herself growing old, with nothing changing in her life for the next forty years or more.

    In exchange for the golden life Andrew had given her, she felt an obligation to remain involved with his company and sit on the board, but the offer to buy the company that came along unexpectedly was a blessing for Andrew’s partners, and for Kezia. It forced her to re-evaluate her life and decide how she wanted to spend the rest of it, and where. It was time to let go of the past and move on. She would be turning sixty in the fall, even if she didn’t look it, and it felt like the right time to make a bold move and reenter the world, at fifty-nine.

    Once she’d made the decision, her house sold quickly, and with two daughters in New York, it was the obvious place for her to go, and it would give her the life she needed and wanted after twenty-five years in San Francisco, the last five of them without Andrew. San Francisco had stopped making sense for her once he was gone. He had added life to it for her.

    One of her daughters had a booming career and life in the city, the other lived in the West Village and some of the time in a house close to the Vermont town where she and her mother had been born. Kate was trying to write a book. She spent enough time in New York that Kezia knew she’d see more of her if she lived there herself than she would visiting her from San Francisco.

    Kezia was excited about the move. Her whole focus was turned to what lay ahead for her.

    She was still beautiful at fifty-nine, and easily looked ten years younger than she was. She was tall and slim, with a lithe, youthful, trim figure and strikingly pretty face, with blond hair and deep blue eyes. She felt profoundly revitalized and renewed by the move to New York. San Francisco was just too small and too sleepy and now that she was no longer married to Andrew, even though she was a powerful force on the board of the company, people forgot about her. She wasn’t by any means ready to give up her life yet, and quietly close her doors and sit at home. New York had all the life, vitality, and energy she craved, and with her daughters there, it made total sense. She was sorry she hadn’t made the leap sooner. She was in great spirits on the flight on the way there.

    It was the last week in June, and the weather was warm. The airport was teeming when she arrived on a Friday afternoon. She already knew that both her daughters were out of town for the weekend. Her younger daughter, Felicity, was working in Paris for two weeks, at Paris Fashion Week. At twenty-three, she had become a stunningly successful model and had been on magazine covers all over the world for the past three years. She had been eighteen when her father died, and she went to college at USC in L.A., as he would have wanted her to. But she had never been a strong student, and she dropped out after two years, when she was discovered by the head of a major New York modeling agency. Within the first six months she was on the covers of Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, and L’Officiel, and was known all over the world as the most exciting new face to come along in years. Felicity was responsible about her career. She took it seriously, and worked hard, and Kezia was proud of her success. Felicity had bought her own apartment in Tribeca from her earnings a year before, at twenty-two, and led a glamorous life that would have turned most women’s heads. She had learned to spot the men who pursued most models and were just looking for entertainment or arm candy, or simply wanted to be able to say they’d gone out with her. She had a tendency to go out with older men. Her boyfriend for the last year, Blake White, led a fashionable jet-set life at thirty-nine, and had a big job as a wealth management consultant at Goldman Sachs for some very illustrious clients. He was from a prosperous family himself, knew many important people as clients and friends, and loved going out with beautiful young women. But he also saw something deeper and different in Felicity, something that he hadn’t come across before. In spite of her success and the money her father left her, she had sound values, strong family ties, and a good mind, and was more sensible than most women her age. Her own success hadn’t turned her head. She was upbeat and fun to be with. Blake had been married before, to a socialite he had grown up with. He was divorced and had a six-year-old son, Alex, who spent alternate weekends with them, and would be with Blake for the month of August.

    Felicity enjoyed spending time with Alex, and he loved her. She treated him more as a big sister would, rather than taking on a motherly role, which Blake also liked about her. She had no hidden agenda, considered herself too young to marry anyone, and had no desire to have children of her own anytime soon. After years of dating women since his divorce who were hell-bent on getting Blake to marry them, being with Felicity was refreshing, happy, fun, and a huge relief. She didn’t try to court Alex in order to woo his father, she just had a good time with him. She was in love with Blake, but she loved her career too. She considered herself fortunate that her career had taken off and provided her a big income and great opportunities over the past three years. Blake loved being with her. He considered it ironic that the one woman he had taken seriously since his divorce didn’t want to get married, and viewed herself as too young to consider it for at least another ten years.

    Kezia knew that Felicity had been in Paris for fittings all week, at the various houses she would be walking for in the fashion shows. Both Chanel and Dior had hired her as one of their star models, and she was spending the weekend in Saint-Tropez at the house of friends of Blake’s. He had flown over to be with her and see her in the haute couture shows the following week. Kezia couldn’t wait for her to see the new apartment when she got back. She had gone all out with a real showplace in New York.

    The apartment Kezia had bought was half of the penthouse floor in a relatively new sixty-story building on Fifty-fifth Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues. It was two floors taller than any other building near it, and she had a hundred-and-eighty-degree view of the city. She had been ordering furniture and draperies with a New York decorator for the past few months, and it was going to be sublimely comfortable and elegant. She had put some of the old furniture in a storage unit to keep for the girls. She had sold a lot of it, and sent only her favorite pieces to New York. It was a new world, a new life, a new home. She had kept most of the art because she loved it.

    Kezia had rented the bare-bones basics from a staging company her decorator had recommended, so that she’d have a bed, several dressers, and a chair in her bedroom, two couches in her enormous living room, some comfortable chairs in case she had guests, a big coffee table, and a large dining table and chairs in the kitchen. She didn’t need more than that until her furniture arrived at the end of August.

    She had made no summer plans. She was looking forward to two months in New York, exploring new shops and restaurants and obscure museums. Her daughters were horrified that she was staying in the city, and Kezia insisted she didn’t mind the heat or the tourists. She was going to make the city her own before the summer was over. Felicity had rented a house in Southampton for June, July, and August, and she and Blake would commute for work when necessary and were planning to entertain there. Alex would be with them in August. Felicity wanted her mother to come visit. She was always warm and welcoming, and mother and daughter had fun together, usually spontaneous adventures or evenings on the spur of the moment when Felicity was free.

    Kate, Kezia’s older daughter, was more complicated, and always had been. She was just as beautiful and striking as her younger sister, but everything about her was more serious and more intense. She had dark brown hair and big brown eyes, and delicate features. She was smaller than Felicity, who was tall and looked a great deal like Kezia, with blond hair and blue eyes. Kate’s beginnings were very different from Felicity’s, and yet she had been just as fortunate, possibly even more so.

    —

    Kezia’s mother had died of breast cancer when Kezia was three, and she had no memory of her, although her father spoke of her constantly in glowing terms. She had been a nurse and worked with him. Kezia had grown up in a tiny town in Vermont as the daughter of the local general practitioner, and he had shared with her his dedication to medicine, which was his passion. Her childhood had been a happy one, and Thornton Cooper was a loving, attentive father. Kezia had stayed close to home and attended the University of Vermont, as a science major, and entered nursing school in Boston after she graduated, to become a nurse practitioner and work with her father, which was her lifelong dream, and his. Shortly after she began the nurse practitioner program, she had discovered that she was pregnant, by a boy she’d had a romance with that summer, Reed Phillips. But neither of them had intended for it to be long-term. It was a hot summer romance they both knew couldn’t last. She was going to nursing school, and he was a medical student at Dartmouth and was starting his internship in L.A. He had a summer job at a small country inn in Vermont, where he met Kezia.

    Discovering that she was pregnant when she got to Boston after the summer was not good news for either of them. She liked Reed, but there was no hope of a future for them. They were headed in different directions, on opposite coasts. When she called to tell him she was pregnant, he came to see her. He was three years older than Kezia, steeped in his medical studies, and planning to move to L.A. for his internship. He liked Kezia a lot but he wasn’t in love with her, nor she with him. There was no room in his life for a wife and a baby, and he made that clear. His life’s dream was to go to Africa and work with Doctors Without Borders. His and Kezia’s career goals were similar in medicine, but their paths were not destined to intersect in the future. She planned to work in a small Vermont rural town with her father, and Reed wanted a life a world away in underdeveloped countries.

    Reed was very direct that he could not participate in the life of a baby. He would help her support it if necessary, but he was not going to engage in fatherhood with her. It was the last thing he wanted, and he didn’t want to mislead her. Kezia spoke to her father after she’d spoken to Reed, told him what had happened, and offered to drop out of the nursing program. She had a partial scholarship, and her father was paying the rest. Her father was, as he always had been, loving and compassionate and generous with her. The baby was due at the end of the spring semester. He insisted that she stick with her studies, have the baby over the summer, and leave the baby with him in the fall and go back to school. He and a local girl would care for the baby during the week, and Kezia would come home on weekends from Boston to take care of her child. It would be arduous for both of them, but he was more than willing to do it. He would have done anything for her. Miraculously, it all went according to plan. Reed, the baby’s father, stayed true to form too.

    When the baby was born, Kezia named her after her mother, Kate Morgan Cooper. Reed was starting his internship in L.A. by then, and never came to Vermont to see the baby. He had sent Kezia relinquishment forms as soon as the baby was born. He wanted no responsibility for her. He offered to pay support, in spite of surrendering all parental rights, and Kezia refused. She didn’t want money from him if he wanted no involvement with the child. They signed the papers when Kate was less than a month old, and he left her life without ever entering it. Until she was twelve, the only parents Kate knew were her mother and grandfather in the small town where Kezia had grown up.

    It was a happy, carefree life. From time to time, when she was younger, Kate wanted to know why other children had a father and she didn’t, and Kezia simply said that it had worked out that way. She explained that Kate’s father was a doctor, he worked in Africa, and they couldn’t be together. It was enough information for her as a young child. She spared Kate the additional information later that he had married a South African physician who also worked for Doctors Without Borders. Kezia had heard it by chance when she met someone who had gone to medical school with him. Kezia never heard from Reed again after he signed the relinquishment papers. Just as he had told her, he wanted a clean break. Kezia had wanted her baby anyway, doubly so to make it up to her for not having a father. And Kezia’s father had been wonderful to both of them.

    Kate had an easy, healthy childhood, adored by her mother and grandfather, and Kezia loved working as the nurse practitioner in her father’s practice. No one in their little rural town had sparked Kezia’s romantic interest, few wanted to date or marry a woman with a child, and some were bothered that she hadn’t been married to Kate’s father. It was a small, gossipy town.

    It was Kezia’s father who had suggested that she go to the medical conference in San Francisco, to learn about some of the new technologies. She’d been hesitant at first, and had resisted, but he insisted it would be good for her to get away. He took Kate camping that weekend. She was twelve, and loved camping and fishing with her grandfather. It was the only life she’d ever known. She had a serious, introverted nature, kept a journal, and loved to write. She wanted to be a writer and was always creating stories or scribbling in her journal. She said that one day, she’d write a book.

    If that’s what you want to do, you will, her grandfather told her. That’s how I felt about being a doctor. Medicine held no fascination for Kate.

    At the medical conference in San Francisco, by sheer chance, Kezia met Andrew Hobson, who had invested heavily in several of the technologies that were being introduced. He had come to see the presentations, since he lived in San Francisco. He took her to dinner, and to lunch before she left. She was somewhat dazed by having met him. He was incredibly impressive and the kindest man she’d ever met. He was a widower without children, twenty years older than Kezia. And for the next six months, he flew to Vermont as often as he could to spend time with her and Kate. He and Thornton, Kezia’s father, became good friends, and were not so far apart in age. They were both good men who respected each other.

    Six months after they met, almost to the day, Andrew and Kezia were married in the small church in her hometown. She hated to leave her father, it was a wrenching decision for her. She knew it would be hard for him without her, but he wanted her happiness more than his own, which was the kind of person he was, and why everyone loved him. He wanted a better life for her than their small rural town could offer. Andrew Hobson was presenting her with a rare opportunity. And they loved each other.

    Kate and Kezia moved to San Francisco with Andrew. He bought a big enough house for them to have more children, and he solemnly asked to adopt Kate within a few months of their marriage. He treated Kate as his own child right from the beginning. When Kezia and Andrew’s baby girl was born two years later, they named her Felicity. He never differentiated between the two girls and treated them equally. The estate he left reflected that, and he divided his bequests equally between Kezia, his wife, and his two daughters, Kate and Felicity, with equal trusts for both girls.

    Kate was fourteen when Felicity was born. She had treated her almost like her own baby, holding her, changing her, feeding her, like a live doll she had waited for all her life. But as Kate entered her twenties and Felicity got older, Kezia could see that Kate was starting to view Felicity differently, as the intruder who had come to steal the limelight from her and rob her of her parents’ time and attention.

    Felicity was an enchanting, happy child, easy to love and spend time with. She had a sunny, open, uncomplicated nature, and Kate had a dark, brooding side to her which got more intense as she got older. Kezia wondered at times if Kate’s biological father had a similar personality, but she hadn’t known him well enough to be able to tell. Their relationship had been short-lived over a summer. When Kate turned twenty-one, Kezia shared the details of her history with her, thinking it only fair to do so. She told her about the summer romance that had been the origin of her birth, and the father who had chosen to relinquish her. She made it clear that it hadn’t been Kezia’s decision. It had been his.

    The truth had come as a blow to Kate, even though he had given her up without ever seeing her. It wasn’t that she didn’t measure up, Kezia tried to explain, it was that he didn’t. He didn’t feel ready to be a father, no matter how lovable Kate was, and Kezia assured her she had been the joy of her life and of her grandfather’s.

    Sadly, the year after Kezia and Andrew married, Kezia’s father had been diagnosed with leukemia and died in three short months. Kezia had been able to spend his last month with him, and Kate had come to say goodbye before he died. It had been an immeasurable loss to them both. But Andrew was close at hand to comfort them. And Felicity had been conceived shortly after Kezia’s father’s death, which had given her some consolation.

    Kate had been depressed for months after she learned about

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