Danielle Steel, Vol. 1: Full Circle/Zoya/No Greater Love/Family Album
Full Circle  Tana Roberts is haunted by a memory that keeps love at a distance and resolves to not end up like her mother - locked in a dead end affair with a married man. But when she becomes attracted to a fellow attorney Drew Lands, she puts all good sense aside. Can the one person who truly cares for her help her to find hope for future happiness?  No Greater Love  The tragedy of the Titanic provides the dramatic backdrop for this inspiring tale. Aboard the doomed ship, Edwina Winfield toasts her engagement while surrounded by her family. But the iceberg that shatters the hull shatters her life as she loses her parents and fiancé. For over a decade, she holds together the family newspaper empire while raising her siblings. There's no room for love until two men bring romance into her life again.  Zoya  Part I: A child of Russian royalty, Zoya's comfortable world is shattered by the Russian Revolution and the death of her parents. She flees to Paris with her grandmother, struggling to survive her first taste of poverty. There she finds true love with American Capt. Clayton Andrews whom she marries over her grandmother's objections. But the happiness is brief, as the stock market crash of '29 leads to her husband's death.  Part II: With the death of Clayton, Zoya begins the struggle to rise from poverty once again while raising her children. Work in a local dress shop proves a perfect match for her talents and business skill. Success as an entrepreneur leads to a meeting with fashion magnate Simon Hirsch. They marry, but this marriage is also fated to end in heartache. Now raising her own grandchild, Zoya makes an emotional pilgrimage back to her homeland.  Family Album  Part I: Faye and Ward Thayer live through enough ups and downs for several lifetimes. A whirlwind courtship leads to a comfortable life fueled by Ward’s family fortune. But as the fortune vanishes, Ward’s drinking and cheating compel Faye to throw him out. Faye builds a film directing career and later takes on an unlikely partner: Ward, now reformed. But the strain of raising their four rebellious children threatens to split the marriage again.  Part II: The Thayer children face the challenges of the tumultuous 1970s: Vietnam, drugs, dropping out and more. Thanks to a part in her parents’ film, Valerie makes the transition from low-budget film actress to rising star. Lionel rediscovers a friend from the past, while Anne’s affair with a friend’s father leads to a large family of her own. During a heartwarming weekend surrounded by family, Faye’s extraordinary life comes to a close.