In previous Danielle Steel books, she starts off a bit slow with an info dump, but this didn’t happen in this book.

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The chemistry and sparks fly from these two and you'll love reading about all of their meals, trips, and their "time together" if you catch my drift. Beautiful follows the world of Veronique Vincent, the world’s most successful model and when an accident happens she must take a journey of self discovery. The whole time I was reading it I kept telling myself I would just wait for the good part, and it just never came. There’s lack of story development and it gets quite messy when Danielle goes into explaining her CIA character and narrative. She's not like most models; she's modest, humble, not all about the glitz and glamour or enthralled with her beauty.I think there was definitely room for further expansion of the feelings of this woman and her heartfelt experiences. She is also forced to confront the harsh reality that she has been severely injured, her famous appearance forever altered. As all of this is going on, the people that killed her family are still out there and now they want payback for not getting all of the ransom. But this move proves to be fatal as an explosion at the Brussels airport sends Veronique’s life into a state of disarray.

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Mike Andrews is a CIA operative investigating Pierre De Vaumont, a social networker with Russian contacts. Once she is well enough, her mother's Law partner brings the will to her, and much to surprise, her mothers left quite an estate on top of a life changing secret.Also found it strange that Steel mentions roast chicken about 5 times during the course of the book. In truth, she is struggling to find herself again after losing everything, and to discover what truly matters in life. She’s planned a much-needed weekend with her mother, and her somewhat BF Cyril is taking them to the airport one morning to head out. On one of her trips to New York to prepare a rented building for her fashions, a CIA agent, Mike Andrews, notices someone shady in first class on the same plane as Theo.

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She spends quite a bit of time in hospital and essentially makes a full recovery but the damage to her face has ruined her modeling career and she is left trying to figure out how to survive in a world without her mother and what her new identity may be if she can no longer model. When a quick getaway presents a welcome break on the heels of Paris Fashion Week, and before a Vogue cover shoot in Tokyo, Veronique is thrilled, eager to escape the mayhem of her busy schedule. Both run the risk of being killed, Mike in terms of his profession and killers are out to exhort millions from Theo after killing her husband and child. Veronique’s world is literally blown to bits and her life and health are shattered beyond all recognition. Although she prefers to keep a low profile after the unthinkable struck her family – her husband and their son were kidnapped and held for ransom.She finds fulfillment in her close relationship with her twin sister, Hope, her role as a mentor for her assistant, Violet, and her career. Yet, despite being the consummate professional, Veronique wants little of the glamorous life that modeling affords her.