03097cam a2200469 i 4500 540546218 TxAuBib 20211006120000.0 200427s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020018985 9781984821522 hardcover : acid-free paper 1984821520 hardcover : acid-free paper (OCoLC)1152489286 DLC eng rda DLC BDX YDX T3Q OCLCO OCLCF JDP LE@ OCLCO OCO JAS OCLCO AYP ILC TCH GY8 TxAuBib rda Steel, Danielle. The butler. The butler : a novel / Danielle Steel. First edition. New York : Delacorte Press, [2021] ©2021. 257 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "The moment the plane touched down at Ministro Pistorini Airport in Buenos Aires, Joachim von Hartmann knew in every fiber of his being that he was home. It was almost as if his heart and soul, and even his body, knew it. He had left as a boy of seventeen, twenty-five years before, when he moved to France with his mother, and new French stepfather. Eight years later, he went to England on a lark, which turned into a worthy career for the past seventeen years. His roots are now firmly planted in Europe, but he realized as he breathed the air of Buenos Aires that his heart had remained here"-- Provided by publisher. When Joachim von Hartmann moved from Buenos Aires to Paris with his mother in his late teens, his twin stayed behind... and entered a dark world. Fascinated by the precision and intense demands of training to be a butler, Joachim went on to work in some of the grandest homes in England. His brother never reappeared. Olivia White has given ten years of her life to her failed magazine, and has come to Paris to reinvent herself. Joachim takes a job working for Olivia as a lark and enjoys the whimsy of a different life. Then he learns the family history he never knew: a criminal grandfather who died in prison, the wealthy father who abandoned him, and the dangerous criminal his twin has become. Stripped of their old roles, Olivia and Joachim are first employer and employee, then friends... then a man and woman who reach a place where the past doesn't matter and only what they are living now is true. -- adapted from jacket. 20211007. Twins Fiction. Twins. Butlers England Fiction. Butlers. Organized crime Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Man-woman relationships. FICTION / Women. FICTION / Family Life / General. FICTION / Romance / Contemporary. Fiction. Paris (France) Fiction. Buenos Aires (Argentina) Fiction. England. Romance fiction.