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Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel (born August 14, 1947) is an American writer, best known for her romance novels. She is the bestselling author alive and the fourth bestselling fiction author of all time, with over 800 million copies sold. She has written 179 books, including over 146 novels.

Based in California for most of her career, Steel has produced several books a year, often juggling up to five projects at once. Despite "a resounding lack of critical acclaim" (Publishers Weekly), all her novels have been bestsellers, including those issued in hardback. Her formula is fairly consistent, often involving rich families facing a crisis, threatened by dark elements such as prison, fraud, blackmail and suicide. Steel has also published children's fiction and poetry, as well as raising funds for the treatment of mental disorders. Her books have been translated into 43 languages, with 22 adapted for television, including two that have received Golden Globe nominations.

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Pegasus

I Tyskland på tærsklen til Anden Verdenskrig, lever de to venner og enkemænd, Nicolas og Alex, hver deres fredfyldte liv med deres børn. Nicolas og hans families sikkerhed bliver dog truet, da hemmeligheden om hans afstamning kommer frem.

For at overleve må familien flygte til Amerika, og det eneste som Nicolas og hans sønner kan tage med sig er deres otte fuldblodsheste. To af dem er lipizzanere og en gave fra Alex. Disse fantastiske væsner åbner døren ind til et nyt liv og sikrer Nicolas et arbejde hos det berømte cirkus, Ringling Brothers. Der bliver han og den hvide hingst, Pegasus, showets stjerner og en ung og yndig linedanser stjæler hurtigt hans hjerte.

Men krigsårene sætter deres spor, og mens Nicolas kæmper for at tilpasse sig sit nye liv, står Alex og hans to døtre overfor en stigende fare i Europa. Tragedien rammer på begge sider af Atlanterhavet, og nu hviler begge familiers lykke i hænderne på skæbnen.
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Udgivelsesdato27 maj 2015
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ISBN lydbog9788711465219