Used Book – The End of Summer, Danielle Steel, Catherine Pitiot

349 pages. paperback. The summer will be long. Little Pilar is in Provence, with her paternal grandparents, for the holidays, and Deanna is alone in California. Her marriage is, all in all, just a gilded cage. This year again, her work keeps Marc-Edouard in Europe. To fill her solitude, Deanna paints. During a weekend on a beach south of San Francisco, she meets Ben, director of a renowned gallery. With him, she rediscovers the tenderness, complicity, and laughter that had been dead between her and Marc-Edouard for so long. For a summer. But a tragedy occurs that forces her to take the first flight to France.