Everyone knows Madeleine and Jack Hunter. Maddy is an award-winning TV anchorwoman. Jack is the head of her network. To the world, theirs is a storybook marriage. But behind the doors of their lush Georgetown home a different story emerges.<br><br>Maddy has always tried to deny Jack&rsquo;s subtle put-downs, control, and jealousy. She has no bruises, only the daggers of fear, humiliation, and isolation &mdash; as powerful as the gun or the fist, the wounds as deep. It seems impossible that a woman the nation idolizes lives in degradation and fear. Maddy&rsquo;s secrets are well kept, even from herself.<br><br>Maddy&rsquo;s healing begins when she joins the First Lady&rsquo;s Commission on Violence Against Women. There, she hears eerily familiar stories from terrified wives and girlfriends. And there she comes to know Bill Alexander, a distinguished diplomat. Bill suspects that something is terribly wrong in Maddy&rsquo;s marriage and begs her to open her eyes.<br><br>As she takes the first steps toward freedom, a remarkable series of events unfolds ... a stranger from Maddy&rsquo;s past reappears ... White House headlines bring the nation to a standstill ... and a devastating tragedy forces Maddy to realize how much has been taken from her. Faced with the most difficult choice of her life, Maddy finds a strength she never knew she had and a gift that will change her life forever.<br><br>With wisdom and compassion, bestselling novelist Danielle Steel reminds us that no one is exempt from the effects of abuse, in its subtlest forms. But at its core, <b>Journey</b> is a book about hope, about change, and about daring to be free.