Time and time again Danielle Steel has produced some of the most down to earth fiction out there and her latest, Family Ties is no exception. Bottom this novel is one of her best. Meet Annie Ferguson, am architect who becomes the guardian to her sister's three children after her sister is killed. We are then brilliantly given a flash-forward look at their lives over the next decade. Would you take a family member's or a best friend's children after a horrific accident claimed their lives? Would you sacrifice your dreams and career to raise kids you never expected to have?? How much do you truly love the people you say you love most in the world? Danielle Steel gives us one woman's answer and her unexpected journey of what it means to be a mother and the ties that bind families in good and in bad. ?Donald Kendall, ASM, #2923, Troy MI