a novel Steel, Danielle creator author. text Ghost stories. nyu 2017 First edition. monographic eng

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282 pages ; 25 cm "Sybil and Blake Gregory have established a predictable, well-ordered Manhattan life—she as a cutting-edge design authority and museum consultant, he in high-tech investments—raising their teenagers Andrew and Caroline and six-year-old Charlie. But everything changes when Blake is offered a dream job he can’t resist as CEO of a start-up in San Francisco. He accepts it without consulting his wife and buys a magnificent, irresistibly underpriced historic Pacific Heights mansion as their new home. The past and present suddenly collide for them in the elegant mansion filled with tender memories and haunting portraits when an earthquake shocks them the night they arrive. The original inhabitants appear for a few brief minutes. In the ensuing days, the Gregorys meet the large and lively family who lived there a century ago: distinguished Bertrand Butterfield and his gracious wife Gwyneth, their sons Josiah and little Magnus, daughters Bettina and Lucy, formidable Scottish matriarch Augusta and her eccentric brother Angus. All long since dead. All very much alive in spirit—and visible to the Gregorys and no one else. The two families are delighted to share elegant dinners and warm friendship. They have much to teach each other, as the Gregorys watch the past unfold while living their own modern-day lives."-- Danielle Steel. n-us-ca Moving, Household Fiction Mansions California San Francisco Fiction Apparitions Fiction Romance fiction Fiction Contemporary Women Pacific Heights (San Francisco, Calif.) Fiction PS3569.T33828 P35 2017 813/.6 9781101883976 1101883979 2016046692 Random House Inc, Attn Order Entry 400 Hahn rd, Westminster, MD, USA, 21157 DLC 161202 20190502000702.0 6382574 eng