title: Crossings (Steel novel)
text: # Crossings (Steel novel)
  
  Crossings is a 1982 bonkbuster novel that was written by American Danielle Steel. It is Steel's 13th novel. It was adapted into a six-part miniseries of the same name in 1986.
  
  ## Plot
  
  The ship Normandie makes a voyage from Washington, D.C. to France despite an impending war. Aboard the ship is American Liane de Villiers, the young wife of an old ambassador to France.
  
  ## List of characters
  
  * Liane Crockett de Villiers – A daughter of a world shipping enterprise, Crockett Shippings, who marries Armand after his wife's death
  * Armand de Villiers – Ambassador of France to the US, having returned to France, who works for the Vichy Regime of German-occupied France
  * Odile de Villiers – Wife of Armand who dies early
  * Nicholas Burnham – President of an enterprise in steel business, Burnham Steel, who first meets Liane during crossing the Atlantic
  * Hillary Burnham – Unfaithful wife of Nick who refuses to divorce him
  * Johnny Burnham – Only son of Nicholas and Hillary
  