The Kiss - Danielle Steel

Written by Danielle Steel
Read by Joseph Siravo
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Release date: January 2, 2001
Duration: 12:38:18

Isabelle Forrester is the exquisite wife of a prominent Parisian banker who has long since shut her out of his heart. For lonely years, Isabelle has lived a life of isolation, pouring her passions into caring for her desperately ill son, Teddy, and into making their Paris home as happy as possible for her teenage daughter, Sophie. Isabelle allows herself one secret pleasure: a long-distance friendship by telephone with an American man, a Washington power broker who travels in the highest circles of politics and who, like Isabelle, is trapped in an empty marriage.

Agreeing to meet for a few precious, innocent days in London, Isabelle and Bill find their friendship changing. Then, on a warm June evening, a red double-decker bus, full of pasengers, speeds down a London street. A few blocks away, a man and a woman climb into a limousine, reveling in a magical evening of dancing and champagne. As their driver pulls into an intersection, the couple shares their first, searching kiss. For a moment, etched in time, all stands still—until, in a flash of metal and glass, their limousine is struck at full speed, crushed under the bus’s tremendous weight. And a long journey begins—toward healing, toward hope, toward dreams of an infinite future…

Now, inside the cool, sterile wards of a London hospital, Isabelle and Bill cling to life, their bodies shattered almost beyond repair. In the days and weeks that follow, they slowly, painfully traverse a road to recovery littered with challenges of the body, spirit, and heart. Together, they must find the strength not only to embrace life again but also to face what they have left behind. … For both, a tangle of changing relationships and the tragedy of another loss conspire to separate them once again. And this time they could lose each other forever.

“…Joseph Siravo starts this story slowly and is quite detached from the characters and events at first. As the narrative progresses, so does Siravo’s emotional involvement in the lives of Isabelle, Bill, and all the people whose lives they touch. As Isabelle and Bill struggle to recreate their lives, Siravo brings love and passion to the forefront.” … AudioFile