Dating Game (eBook)

Paris Armstrong never saw it coming. With two grown children and a lovely home in Connecticut, Paris was happy with her marriage, her family, her life. So when her husband of twenty-four years said they needed to talk, Paris couldn't imagine what he was about to say.'I want a divorce,' Peter tells her. Just like that, the husband she adored had dumped her for a younger woman. And just like that, Peter and his thirty-one-year-old lover had made their plans for their future, leaving Paris to pick up the pieces of a shattered life. Within days, Peter was gone. And Paris was left to figure out how she intended to get through the next day, let alone the rest of her life.The task could not have been more painful. First came the tears. Then the excruciating attempts by well-meaning friends to 'fix her up' with men who paled in comparison to Peter. Worse yet, she still loved him. Finally, Paris realized she was in a fight for her very survival. Drastic measures were called for. Even her shrink agreed. It was time to move - as far away as possible, just after Peter remarried. Paris had never felt, or been, more alone.Saying goodbye to the world she knew and loved, Paris heads west, to San Francisco, and discovers being single in a world full of men who were too young, too old, too married, or too good to be true. For Paris, the list seemed endless . . . the charming commitment-phobe . . . the drunken Neanderthal . . . the young Frenchman - so adorably sexy she almost forgot about his age, and did, for a while. With her dating track record veering between disappointing and disastrous, and her daughter now engaged to a man Paris's age, Paris finally comes to the conclusion that romance is not in her future. That's when her small circle of offbeat, loving friends becomes more important than ever before. And a decision Paris makes only for herself changes her life once more. The secret, she discovers finally, is in finding the gifts in life's unexpected twists and turns, and turning despair into freedom and loss into joy.In a poignant, wickedly funny novel about getting dumped and getting over it, about tackling life with both courage and laughter, Danielle Steel explores what it means to start over, whether you wanted to or not, and finding something better than you had before.

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A poignant and funny novel about starting over and the rollercoaster ride of dating from the bestselling author of Finding Ashley and The Wedding Dress.With two grown children and a lovely home in Connecticut, Paris is happy with her marriage, her family, her life. So when Peter, her husband of twenty-four years, drops a bombshell and leaves her the next day for a younger woman, she must figure out how to piece her life back together.The task could not have been more painful. First came the tears, then the excruciating attempts by well-meaning friends to 'fix her up' with men who paled in comparison to Peter. Worse yet, she can't get him out of her head. That's when Paris decides that the only way to move on is to start over.Saying goodbye to everything she knows, Paris heads to San Francisco and discovers being single in a world full of men who are too young, too old, too married, or too good to be true. That's when her small circle of offbeat, loving friends becomes more important than ever before. But life takes another unexpected turn and Paris is faced once more with a life changing decision. And this time, she has to get it right...