For fourteen years Steve & Meredith Whitman have sustained a marriage of passion & friendship despite the demands of two all-consuming careers. Meredith is a top investment banker Steve a gifted physician
- the only thing missing in their life is children. Steve longs for them. But Meredith keeps putting off motherhood & now she has been offered an extraordinary job opportunity in San Francisco three thousand miles away. Steve urges her to accept saying that he's more than happy to uproot himself & will join her as soon as he can find a new job himself. Perhaps in California he hopes they can begin a family at last. Neither Steve nor Meredith had reckoned on a prolonged separation but Steve's job keeps him in New York for months longer than planned. Weekends together fall prey to their hectic schedules. Alone in San Francisco Meredith is spending long hours at the office with her boss charismatic entrepreneur Callan Dow. Steve is working late shifts at the hospital grabbing an occasional dinner with a new female colleague. Almost unnoticed Steve & Meredith have begun living separate lives & irresistible forces start to tear their lives & hearts apart. With unerring insight Danielle Steel explores what happens when lives that fit together like delicately balanced puzzles are shifted changed & drift apart. Who survives & if love survives is at the core of Irresistible Forces"."