Steel returns (after last year's Five Days in Paris) with yet
another tale of suffering and redemption (this time, perhaps, with
a personal edge to it, reflecting Steel's reaction to an
unauthorized 1994 biography by Vickie Bane and Lorenzo Benet).
Grace Adams overcomes, in the patented Steel manner, a series of
almost biblical-level adversities. As an adolescent Grace had been
repeatedly molested by her father. If she didn't submit, he would
beat her mother, then dying of bone cancer. After the funeral, in a
particularly violent encounter, Grace, now 17, kills him in
self-defense. With almost no one to believe her story, since Dad
was beloved by everybody in their small Illinois town, Grace goes
to prison for two years. When she's released, she is harassed by a
sleazy probation officer and drugged by a smarmy photographer, who
produces some compromising photographs of the encounter. She
eventually escapes to New York and gets a job at a law firm. She
also volunteers at a battered-women's center, where she is attacked
and brutally beaten by the husband of a woman she had tried to
help. Recuperating at Bellevue, the ever-resilient Grace finds
Charles, her wealthy boss, at her bedside. ("It was so unfair," he
thinks. "She was so young, and so alive, and so pretty.")
Inevitably, they marry, have children, and lead a perfect
Steel-like existence. But when Charles runs for the US Senate,
reporters uncover Grace's past. The media savage them, and Grace
has a miscarriage. Steel, who was herself recently manhandled in a
biography that dwelt on Steel's harsh childhood and on her
marriages to two convicted felons, gets her own back against the
"maliciousness" of the press ("They went for the gut every time
with a stiletto"). Here, there is an improbable, and typically
upbeat, denouement. Once again, Steel's incantational style, a
melodic and slightly hypnotic current, carries the reader swiftly
through a string of god-awful cliches, outrageous events, and
unlikely outcomes. For the devotee only. (Kirkus Reviews)
With rare insight and power, bestselling author Danielle Steel has written a story of one extraordinary woman's struggle to triumph over malice and betrayal.
At seventeen, on the night of her mother's funeral, Grace Adams is attacked. A young woman with secrets too horrible to tell, with hurts so deep they may never heal, Grace will not tell the truth about the attack. She is beautiful enough for men to want her but, after a lifetime of being a victim, now she must pay the price for other people's sins.
From the depths of an Illinois women's prison to a Chicago modelling agency, and from there to a challenging career in New York, Grace carries the past with her wherever she goes. In healing her own pain, she reaches out to battered women and children who live a nightmare she knows only too well. When Grace meets Charles Mackenzie, a New York lawyer, she has found a man who wants nothing from her - except to heal her, to hear her secrets and to give her the family she so desperately wants. But with happiness finally within her grasp, Grace is at her most vulnerable - in danger of losing everything to an enemy from her past, an enemy bent on malice.
Malice tells the story of a woman who transforms a life of pain into a blessing for others. Revealing both the stark reality of domestic abuse and the healing power of love, Malice is more than superb fiction. It is a piece of life.
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