On a June day, a young woman in a summer dress steps off a Chicago-bound bus into a small midwestern town.?She doesn't intend to stay.?She is just passing through.?Yet her stopping here has a reason and it is part of a story that you will never forget. The time is the 1950s, when life was simpler, people still believed in dreams, and family was, very nearly, everything.?The place is a small midwestern town with a high school and a downtown, a skating pond and a movie house.?And on a tree-lined street in the heartland of America, an extraordinary set of events begins to unfold.?And gradually what seems serendipitous is tinged with purpose.?A happy home is shattered by a child's senseless death.?A loving marriage starts to unravel.?And a stranger arrives--a young woman who will touch many lives before she moves on.?She and a young man will meet and fall in love.?Their love, so innocent and full of hope, helps to restore a family's dreams.?And all of their lives will be changed forever by the precious gift she leaves them. The Gift, Danielle Steel's thirty-third best-selling work, is a magical story told with stunning simplicity and power.?It reveals a relationship so moving it will take your breath away.?And it tells a haunting and beautiful truth about the unpredictability--and the wonder--of life.