Secrets - Danielle Steel

Beyond the glamorous dream world of television drama lies another world, a world of real-life sorrows and secrets, heartache and tears...

Mel Wechsler is Hollywood's hottest producer, a man with the Midas touch. So when he begins casting for his new television series 'Manhattan', he wants only the best. He knows who he wants, and how to get them, but he has no idea of the private griefs and passions that haunt the off-screen lives of his stars.

Sabina Quarles, his lover and leading lady, has worked hard to get to the top. With her voluptuous figure and blonde, feline beauty, she is every man's fantasy – but the centre of her life remains a closely guarded secret. After years of struggle, handsome Bill Warwick is set to become America's newest heartthrob, but something is tearing him apart. For Jane Adams, a sweet, sexy redhead, 'Manhattan' offers a new beginning and an escape from her secret life. Zack Taylor is Hollywood's most desirable leading man, but for twenty years his life has been tormented by guilt. And Gabrielle Smith, struggling to make it on her own, fears that Hollywood won't let her. As filming begins in New York, friction and jealousy erupt on the set; but in the end, as the ratings soar, it is the uncovered secrets, the tragedies – and the love – that weld Wechsler and the cast of 'Manhattan' into a family.

Sumptuous and enthralling, Secrets brings to technicolour life the glossy, opulent world of television soap opera, and the heartbreak and human drama that lie behind its glamorous facade.