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Heloise Martin had the immense good fortune to grow up in the upscale Hotel Vendome on East 69th Street in New York City with her doting father, Hugues, a staff of workers who took the charming little girl under their wing, and all of the advantages that money could buy.
"Steel has created a fairy tale world where happy endings are requisite, and warm and tender emotions prevail."
Even though her supermodel mother, Miriam Vale, ran off with a rock star and divorced her father when Heloise was only four years old, she has adjusted amazingly and loves her life with her father in the hotel. What little girl wouldn't enjoy getting her hair done in the hotel's salon, attending luxurious weddings and receptions that take place in the hotel's ballroom, and eating gourmet food ordered from the hotel restaurant and delivered by room service?
Heloise is an adorable, hardworking little girl who remains unspoiled despite all of her advantages. She walks the dog of an older hotel resident, does what she can to help the homeless, and fills in when and where she is needed at the hotel with no sense of entitlement or demands for preferential treatment.
As she grows up, Heloise knows that there's nothing she wants to do more than complete her education and run the Hotel Vendome alongside her father. As much as she hates to leave the hotel and her father and friends, she embraces the adventure of attending school in Switzerland where she rounds out her hospitality and hotel management education.
While Heloise is away, her father meets a beautiful and charming woman he'd like to share his life with. Unfortunately, he's not sure how to break the news to Heloise. Since her mother never played more than a marginal part in her life, Hugues found himself serving as both mother and father to his lovely daughter. Now he struggles with how to tell her that he's found love again. But Hugues isn't the only one with an interest in the opposite sex, and Heloise has her own romantic adventures as she matures.
No matter what tragedies and triumphs the two generations of Martins face, they know that they can always take refuge in the one place that opens them with warm and open arms: the Hotel Vendome.
Danielle Steel fans have come to expect a certain standard when reading the novels penned by their favorite author. When they pick up HOTEL VENDOME, they won't be disappointed. Steel has created a fairy tale world where happy endings are requisite, and warm and tender emotions prevail.
As they turn the pages of this novel with the exquisitely elegant cover, readers will enjoy taking refuge in the high-class world where movie stars, world leaders and other celebrities mingle with warm and friendly staff to create a well-rounded cast of characters who delight and entertain. Who wouldn't want to book a suite at the Hotel Vendome?
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Danielle Steel’s new novel invites readers into the ultra-glamorous world of a five-star New York hotel, and brings to vivid life the man who builds it as his dream, the girl who grows up in its loving embrace, and the colorful guests and staff who make its magic complete.
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Danielle Steel’s new novel invites readers into the ultra-glamorous world of a five-star New York hotel, and brings to vivid life the man who builds it as his dream, the girl who grows up in its loving embrace, and the colorful guests and staff who make its magic complete.
About the Book
The hotel was old, run-down. But to Swiss-born Hugues Martin, a young, ambitious hotelier trained in the most illustrious European traditions, it is a rough diamond, tucked away on a quiet, perfectly situated Manhattan street. After begging and borrowing every penny he can scrape together, Hugues purchases the building --- and transforms it into one of the world’s finest luxury hotels.
Under Hugues’s tireless, exacting supervision, the Hotel Vendôme is soon renowned for its elegance, its efficiency, its unparalleled service and discretion --- the ideal New York refuge for the rich and famous, as well as a perfect home for Hugues’s beautiful young wife and their daughter. But when his wife runs off with a notorious rock star, Hugues is suddenly a single parent to four-year-old Heloise --- who will grow up happily regardless, amid a fascinating milieu of celebrities, socialites, politicians, world travelers, and the countless hotel employees who all adore her.
As the years pass, Hugues and the hotel are the center of Heloise’s life, a universe of unexpected mysteries and pleasures, crises and celebrations that make every day magical. She longs to follow in her father’s footsteps and one day run the Vendôme with him. New challenges mark her way: an unexpected romance for Hugues and her own journey to hotel school in Switzerland. The lessons she has learned at her father’s side, in their exciting upstairs/downstairs world, will carry her through it all, as they illuminate a story no reader will forget.
Welcome to the Hotel Vendôme.
