{"product_id":"9780440245193","title":"Family Ties","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom Manhattan to Paris and all the way to Tehran, Danielle Steel weaves a powerfully compelling story that reminds us how challenging and unpredictable life can be—and how the bonds of family hold us together.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e FAMILY TIES\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Annie Ferguson was a bright young Manhattan architect with a limitless future—until a single phone call changed the course of her life forever. Overnight, she became the mother to her sister’s three orphaned children, keeping a promise she never regretted making, even if it meant putting her own life indefinitely on hold. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, at forty-two, still happily single with a satisfying career and a family that means everything to her, Annie is suddenly facing an empty nest. With her nephew and nieces now grown and confronting challenges of their own, she must navigate a parent’s difficult passage between helping and letting go. The eldest, twenty-eight-year-old Liz, an overworked editor in a high-powered job at \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e, has never allowed any man to come close enough to hurt her. Ted, at twenty-four a serious law student, is captivated by a much older woman with children, who is leading him much further than he wants to go. And the impulsive youngest, twenty-one-year old Katie, is an art student about to make a choice that will lead her to a world she is in no way prepared for but determined to embrace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen, when least expected, a chance encounter changes Annie’s life again in the most surprising direction of all. . . . \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47021958365424,"sku":"9780440245193","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780440245193_p0.jpg?v=1763701909","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780440245193","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}