One Day at a Time (2009)

One Day at a Time is a novel by American author Danielle Steel, published by Delacorte Press in February 2009. It is Steel's seventy-seventh novel.

Synopsis

Coco Barrington, the wayward member of a family of Hollywood celebrities, agrees to dog-sit at her successful sister's house. There, she meets Leslie Baxter, a British actor hiding from a vindictive ex with his six-year-old girl. Coco finds love and also reconciliation with the rest of her family, healing old wounds one day at a time.

List of characters

Coco Barrington: daughter of wealthy dramatic agent Buzz Barrington in Hollywood and best-selling romance novelist mother Florence Flowers

Jane Barrington: elder sister of Coco, a successful movie producer

Leslie Baxter: world-famous British movie star who happens to stay at Jane's house while Coco house-sits during her sister's absence

Ian White: ex-lover of Coco who died and left his Australian shepherd, Sallie

Florence Flowers: Coco's mother, a successful novelist

Chloe: daughter of Leslie, living with her mother Monica, an ex-girlfriend of Leslie

Elizabeth: Jane's gay partner

Gabriel: Florence's young boyfriend