Two couples, four decades apart. One believes that if lovers die, they find each other again in another life. Or perhaps they wind up as stars side by side in the sky, together forever. Who knows how it really ends? Danielle Steel breaks new ground in her career as a perennial New York Times bestseller with the poignant story of two parallel destinies, and the kind of love we all hope will be everlasting. Bill, a dedicated young lawyer working at his family’s prestigious New York firm, leaves everything he trained for to follow his dream and become a minister in rural Wyoming. Jenny, his wife, is a stylist whose heart and soul are invested in fashion. She leaves the milieu and life she loves to join him. The certainty they share is that their destinies are linked forever.

Fast forward thirty-eight years. Robert is a hardworking independent book publisher in Manhattan who has given up all personal life to build his struggling business. He is looking for one big hit novel to publish. Lillibet is a young Amish woman, living as though in the seventeenth century, caring for her widowed father and three young brothers on their family farm. In secret at night, by candlelight, she has written the novel that burns within her, and gets it into Robert’s hands, wrapped in her hand-stitched apron. He falls in love first with the book, and then with the woman he has never met, living in the sequestered world of the Amish—a world without telephones, computers, electricity, modern conveniences, or cars. Although Lillibet faces banishment from her family and community, she embraces the opportunity to publish her novel, and is irresistibly drawn to the man who has heard her voice. Destiny is at work here. Fate draws her from her horse-and-buggy life toward his, and the publication of her novel.


兩對有情人、相隔四十載。有人相信，相愛的人就算逝去，也會在另一世相遇，又或者他們會變成天空裡的兩顆星，相偎相依，永不分離。誰知道最終會如何？《紐約時報》暢銷榜長駐作家丹妮薇兒‧史堤爾 (Danielle Steel) 的這本小說讓她的事業開創新顛峰，描述兩條平行的命運線上發生的沉痛故事，一種眾人期盼永不結束的愛情。比爾是位年輕又敬業的律師，原本任職於家族經營的紐約事務所，事務所頗具聲望，但他卻拋棄所學的一切去追逐夢想，成為懷俄明州鄉下的一名牧師。珍妮是比爾的妻子，她對時尚充滿熱情，是位全心投入的設計師，不過為了和比爾在一起，她毅然離開鍾愛的時尚界以及設計師生活，他們確信彼此的命運會緊緊相繫。

時光快轉至三十八年後。羅伯特是在紐約曼哈頓區努力奮鬥的獨立出版商，他放棄個人生活，拼命經營艱辛的事業，他不斷尋找，想找到一本能一炮而紅的小說來出版。莉麗貝特是位年輕的阿米希女性，過著有如活在十七世紀般的日子。莉麗貝特住在家裡的農場，照顧著喪妻的父親和三個弟弟。夜晚在燭光旁，她偷偷寫下心中醞釀許久的小說，把完成的作品包在手縫的圍裙裡，送到了羅伯特手裡。羅伯特先是愛上了小說，接著愛上了他從未見過的作者，生活在離群索居的阿米希門諾教徒世界的女人。這個世界沒有沒有現代設施或汽車。雖然莉麗貝特面臨家人與社群的排擠，她仍緊抓住可以出版自己小說的機會，甚至還無法自拔地受到那名只聽過她聲音的男人所吸引。命運就在這裡開始改變，把她帶離以馬車代步的舊生活，前往他的世界，她的小說也跟著問世。