24 Hours

In an unsuspecting San Francisco neighbourhood, the lives of a community are turned upside down in this gripping suspense from billion copy bestselling author, Danielle Steel. Agnes Barclay is a successful business woman, but her marriage to an unfaithful man has worn her down. In the run up to Thanksgiving celebrations, she is shopping in a bustling supermarket in the Marina District while reflecting on what it means to share precious moments with those she holds dear. While in the same store, Sofia Stone has found out life-altering news and is finding hope hard to find. Helen Adams, a young mother and heavily pregnant, is out buying food for her family and an elderly couple, Horace and Eileen, are gifted the reprieve of successful treatment of Horace's illness and, after a lifetime of love, they are stopping to by the store on the way home from hospital. When violence erupts moments after four armed men enter the supermarket, the next twenty-four hours will become a life-altering experience for these strangers brought together that none of them will ever forget . . .