Danielle Steel: Big Girl: A Novel

Collin made his way through the crowd to Victoria, and she was beaming at him when he got there. He still didn’t know what her mother had said to her, but he knew it was hurtful, and this time he didn’t want to know. All he wanted to do was shield her from those wounds forever. She was still holding the bouquet.

“We’ll put that to good use one of these days,” he said, gently taking it from her, and setting it down at their table, and then he swept her onto the dance floor and held her in his arms as they danced away. She was a beautiful woman. She always had been. She just didn’t know it, and now she did. And as she looked up at him, she knew just how much she was loved.

About the Author

DANIELLE STEEL has been hailed as one of the world’s most popular authors, with over 590 million copies of her novels sold. Her many international best sellers include Southern Lights, Matters of the Heart, One Day at a Time, A Good Woman, Rogue, Honor Thyself, Amazing Grace , and other highly acclaimed novels. She is also the author of His Bright Light , the story of her son Nick Traina’s life and death.

Visit the Danielle Steel Web Site at www.daniellesteel.com

a cognizant original v5 release october 17 2010

Big Girl is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2010 by Danielle Steel

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

DELACORTE PRESS is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc., and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Steel, Danielle.

Big girl : a novel / Danielle Steel.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-440-33952-6

1. Young women—Fiction. 2. Overweight women—Fiction. 3. Self-realization in women—Fiction. 4. Parent and child—Fiction. 5. Domestic fiction. I. Title

PS3569.T33828B54 2010

813′.54—dc22 2009042885

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