Power Play: Novel

Power Play, a riveting novel by Danielle Steel, delves into the lives of two successful CEOs in Northern California who are indispensable to their growing companies’ futures. The difference between them is monumental - one is a man, the other a woman. Steel takes readers into the rarefied world of those at the pinnacle of international business, exploring the irrevocable choices they make, the driving forces behind their decisions, and how others perceive them. The heady drug of power impacts everything they do.

Fiona Carson, the Harvard-educated CEO of National Technology Advancement, is a devoted single mother and a world-class strategist. She faces isolation and constant pressure as a woman in a man’s world, carefully weighing every move she makes, while reserving any personal time for her children. On the other hand, Marshall Weston, CEO of a multibillion-dollar high-tech company, basks in the fruits of his achievements alongside his perfect corporate spouse, Liz. Smooth, shrewd, and irreproachable, Marshall is a model chief executive who flirts with scandal every day and harbors secrets that could destroy his life at any moment.

As Fiona sacrifices her personal life for her career, Marshall dances dangerously close to the edge, both must fight off those who are jealous of their success. The novel raises questions about the high price of success and power, and explores the seductive and damaging nature of power, success and greed, trust and deception, love and loss.

Steel’s emotionally layered novel delves into the world of family, careers, infidelity, and the sacrifices people make to hold onto power or to let it go. The novel also includes an excerpt from Danielle Steel's Prodigal Son. Booklist hails Power Play as an insightful and realistic novel that dramatizes the differences between how men and women handle corporate power and personal responsibility. Kirkus Reviews also praises the novel as appealing fare from Steel, using her signature low-key style to examine personal and professional morality.

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