Happy Birthday by Danielle Steel

Time to blow out the candles, say goodbye to the past, and make a wish for the future…

For April Wyatt, turning thirty is not what she had expected. She’s single, with no interest in changing that in the foreseeable future. Her popular, successful restaurant in downtown New York – where she is chef and owner – consumes every ounce of her passion, attention and energy. Ready or not, though, April’s life is about to change, in a tumultuous discovery on the morning of her milestone birthday.

April’s mother Valerie is a popular TV personality and the queen of gracious living. Since her divorce long-ago, she has worked tirelessly to reach the pinnacle of her career and to create a camera-ready life in her Fifth Avenue penthouse. But she’s having trouble equating her age with how she feels, and all the hours with her personal trainer, the careful work of top hairdressers and her natural good looks can’t hide the fact that she is turning sixty, and the whole world discovers it on her birthday.

It is also Jack Adams’ birthday – the most charismatic sports personality on TV, a man who has his pick of desirable younger women. But he fears his age may finally be catching up with him when he wakes up on his fiftieth birthday needing an emergency visit to the chiropractor…

A terrifying act of violence, an out-of-the-blue blessing, and two very unlikely love affairs soon turn lives inside out and upside down. As these three very different people celebrate their birthdays, they discover that life itself is a celebration – and that its greatest gifts are always a surprise…