Hotel Vendome - Danielle Steel

Top hotelier Hugues Martin takes over a small, run-down hotel in New York. He transforms it into a beautiful boutique hotel of impeccable elegance - the Hotel Vendome. But when his wife leaves him, Hugues must be both father and mother to their three-year-old daughter, Heloise, and run the hotel. For Heloise, the hotel's kindly staff become her family. Following her father's footsteps into the hotel industry, she must study in Europe and Hugues is lost without her. Then a work venture brings a wonderful new woman into his life. Can Heloise accept another woman in her father's life? How will Hugues choose between them? Soon the close-knit unit at Hotel Vendome must form new bonds, and work out the true meaning of love and family.