Books like Complications by Danielle Steel

Poppy, a free‑spirited New Yorker, and Alex, a quiet book‑lover from their hometown, have shared summer vacations for a decade until a fateful trip tore them apart. Now, desperate to reclaim their friendship, she invites him for one last getaway.

After World II, Serena, Princess of San Tibaldo, loses her homeland and embraces a new life in Italy and America, where love, rivalry, and family secrets test her heart and identity.

A high‑flying entrepreneur discovers that success alone leaves a void, until a chance encounter with a lonely mother and her child opens a new chapter of love—and the unexpected cost of happiness.

When a childhood star’s life is shattered by tragedy, her mother’s career in Hollywood gives way to her aunt, a psychiatrist, who helps the young actress rebuild her identity and reclaim her voice.

After a firehouse accident, photographer Madison Allen, mother of three, sets off on a cross‑country road trip to confront the men of her past and decide whether her past choices were right, redefining her future along the way.

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Marie-Ange Hawkins has the kind of childhood that most people dream of. Freedom, love, security in a beautiful old French château. But when Marie-Ange is just eleven, a tragic accident marks the end of her idyllic life. Orphaned and alone, she is sent to America, to live with her great-aunt on a farm in Iowa. Bitterly resented by the old woman, cut off from everything she has known and loved, Marie-Ange is forced to work tirelessly on the farm, dreaming only of the day she can return to her beloved Château de Marmouton. In Marie-Ange's isolated existence, only the friendship of a local boy, Billy Parker, offers comfort and hope. But her only wish is to gain an education--and escape. Then, just after her twenty-first birthday, an unexpected visitor brings startling news and an extraordinary gift: the freedom to return to France, to Château de Marmouton. When she arrives in France, Marie-Ange learns that the château's new owner is Comte Bernard de Beauchamp, a dashing young widower who invites her into his home, then into his heart. But their magical life together, which soon includes marriage, children, and lavish homes, slowly takes an ominous turn. A mysterious woman tells Marie-Ange a shocking story, a story so chilling she doesn't want to believe it. Not even her dear friend Billy can help her now. He is thousands of miles away. And as the darkness gathers around her, Marie-Ange must find the faith and courage to take one, last desperate step to save her loved ones and herself. Danielle Steel's powerful novel is about being pulled into a place where nothing is what it seems. It is about being seduced and lied to and turned around, and wanting to believe the lies--until the moment comes, in one blinding instant, when survival and salvation depend on a final Leap of Faith: the only path to freedom, and life

Fashion model Véronique Vincent’s world collapses after a Brussels airport explosion, forcing her to confront trauma, family secrets and a redefining sense of beauty.

In High Stakes, Danielle Steel follows Jane Addison, a bright young assistant who lands a job at New York’s prestigious Fletcher & Benson agency. Around her simmer complex lives—Hailey West’s solitary motherly love, Francine Rivers’ battle with divorce, a scandalous romance, and a jealous CFO’s secrets—all intertwine in a contemporary romance set in New York.

A woman in the mountains of California struggles to escape the terrifying visions of an assassin, while a mysterious maintenance man and the resort she manages become tangled in her deadly nightmare.

A contemporary romance about the complex relationships between sisters and the impact of a secret affair.