Hotel Vendome: A Novel

America’s #1 bestseller • First time in paperback! A There are some places you visit, and some places you never leave behind. Danielle Steel’s new novel follows a devoted father and the daughter he raises in the fascinating upstairs-downstairs world of a glamorous Manhattan hotel. A HOTEL VENDA?ME A The hotel was old, run-down. But to Swiss-born hotelier Hugues Martin, it is a rough diamond tucked away on a quiet New York City street. So Hugues scrapes together everything he has to purchase the buildinga??and transforms it into one of the world’s finest luxury hotels. A Under Hugues’s exacting supervision, the Hotel VendA?me is soon renowned for its unparalleled service and discretiona??the ideal refuge for the rich and famousa??and a perfect home for Hugues’s family, until his young wife abandons him, leaving Hugues the single parent to their four-year-old daughter. Still, Heloise grows up happily amid a colorful milieu of celebrities, socialites, politicians, world travelers,...