V.C. Andrews Books In Order

My Sweet Audrina

A stand alone mystery thriller from the bestselling author of Flowers in the Attic. My Sweet Audrina The house in the wood was picturesque and charming. The family who lived there were happy and affluent. So what was the secret of the room empty of everything but the rocking chair? Audrina wanted to be as good as her sister. Audrina knew her parents could not love her as they loved her sister. Her sister was perfect, much loved and dead. But how did she die? Who was Audrina and who did she have to become? What was the secret that everyone knew? Everyone except sweet Audrina! The haunting story of love and deceit, innocence and betrayal, and terrible family secrets.

Broken Wings

THEY LIVED ON THE WILD SIDE. NOW THESE BAD GIRLS ARE PAYING THE PRICE. At Dr. Foreman’s School for Girls, the ‘students’ sleep in barns, work on a farm in the blazing heat, and are subjected to ruthless guards who watch their every move. It’s an institution run by the dreadful Dr. Foreman, a woman who delights in administering the worst form of punishment the mysterious Ice Room where the girls face their darkest fears. Now Phoebe, Teal, and Robin three girls from very different worlds are the newcomers in this desert hell. During their stay, each girl will be tempted to commit the ultimate crime of betrayal as Dr. Foreman cleverly tries to turn them against each other until they learn that the only way to survive is to stick together…
and fight back. THESE TOUGH GIRLS NEVER MET THEIR MATCH UNTIL THEY MET EACH OTHER. Phoebe No one will hear her cries now. They put the helmet over my head and fastened the straps so that it was on tightly. I resisted but I couldn’t keep my arms from being straightened and then a strap was fixed over my chest. It was just as it had been when I woke up in the plane that brought me to this hell. Robin She wants to break free but where will she fly? I’m going to strangle my mother darling when I get away from here. She just wanted to get me out of her hair while she tries to become a famous country singing star. Just go, she told me, I’m better off. What she really meant was she was better off. Teal Once she was rich and entitled now she’s just trying to survive. Don’t you want to try to run away with me? You can’t want to stay here a moment longer than you have to. Maybe we just have to follow the dirt road out. Maybe they’re lying to us and we’re not that far from a town. I won’t make it through another day like this.

Midnight Flight

THEY LIVED ON THE WILD SIDE. NOW THESE BAD GIRLS ARE PAYING THE PRICE. At Dr. Foreman’s School for Girls, the ‘students’ sleep in barns, work on a farm in the blazing heat, and are subjected to ruthless guards who watch their every move. It’s an institution run by the dreadful Dr. Foreman, a woman who delights in administering the worst form of punishment the mysterious Ice Room where the girls face their darkest fears. Now Phoebe, Teal, and Robin three girls from very different worlds are the newcomers in this desert hell. During their stay, each girl will be tempted to commit the ultimate crime of betrayal as Dr. Foreman cleverly tries to turn them against each other until they learn that the only way to survive is to stick together…
and fight back. THESE TOUGH GIRLS NEVER MET THEIR MATCH UNTIL THEY MET EACH OTHER. Phoebe No one will hear her cries now. They put the helmet over my head and fastened the straps so that it was on tightly. I resisted but I couldn’t keep my arms from being straightened and then a strap was fixed over my chest. It was just as it had been when I woke up in the plane that brought me to this hell. Robin She wants to break free but where will she fly? I’m going to strangle my mother darling when I get away from here. She just wanted to get me out of her hair while she tries to become a famous country singing star. Just go, she told me, I’m better off. What she really meant was she was better off. Teal Once she was rich and entitled now she’s just trying to survive. Don’t you want to try to run away with me? You can’t want to stay here a moment longer than you have to. Maybe we just have to follow the dirt road out. Maybe they’re lying to us and we’re not that far from a town. I won’t make it through another day like this.

Heaven

From the bestselling author of ‘Flowers in the Attic’ comes the first book in the series centred around the Casteel family and its dark and mysterious past. Repackaged to attract a new generation of Andrews’ fans HER NAME WAS Heaven, HER LIFE WAS ANYTHING BUT Heaven‘s mother Angel had died in childbirth, and from that moment her father turned against her. Her only allies, it seemed, were her four half brothers and sisters. When their father, poor and desperate, sold them to strangers, Heaven was left alone and friendless. Her only hope was to reunite her family. But how? So begins the heartbreaking, magical story of the Casteel family, continued in ‘Dark Angel’, ‘Fallen Hearts’, ‘Gates of Paradise’ and ‘Web of Dreams’.

Dark Angel

Second in the Casteel family saga series set in Virginia and Boston. As Heaven moves away from home she is determined to leave her traumatic past behind. But she is met with more hidden secrets and mysteries! AT LAST, HEAVEN WOULD FIND THE HAPPINESS SHE LONGED FOR!FREE FROM THE SCORN AND CONTEMPT OF HER PAST In her wealthy grandmother’s house, Heaven dreamed of a wonderful new life of new friends, the best schools, beautiful clothes and, most important, love. Soon she would make her family name respectable, find her brothers and sisters, and have a family once again. But even in the world of the rich there were strange forebodings, secrets best forgotten. And as Heaven reached out for love, she was caught up in a sinister web of cruel deceits and hidden passions!

Fallen Hearts

Returning home to Virginia and about to marry her first love, Heaven finally feels she can get on with her life. Until her past yet again returns to haunt her! The third in the hugely successful Casteel family saga series. PROUD AND BEAUTIFUL, HEAVEN CAME BACK TO THE HILLS TO RISE AT LAST ABOVE HER FAMILY’S SHAME! As Logan’s bride, she would savour now the love she had sought for so long. Free from her father’s clutches, she would live again in her backwoods town, a respected teacher and a cherished wife. But after a wedding trip to Boston’s Farthinggale Manor and a lavish, elegant party, Heaven and Logan are persuaded to stay!lured by Tony Tatterton’s guile to live amidst the Tatterton wealth and privilege. Then the ghosts of Heaven’s past rise up once more, writhing around her fragile happiness!threatening her precious love with scandal and jealousy, sinister passions and dangerous dreams.

Gates of Paradise

The Casteel family saga continues for Heaven’s daughter Annie. When her parents are tragically killed in a car accident Annie is taken to Farthinggale Manor, a place she has always dreamt of visiting. But on her arrival Annie quickly realizes it is a cold and dark place, still hiding many family secrets. SEASON OF DARKNESS Heaven’s daughter Annie, a sweet and loving young woman, has known the sort of happy home that always seemed out of her mother’s reach. But a terrible, tragic car accident changes all that. When her mysterious ‘great grandfather’ Tony Tatterton takes her to Farthinggale Manor, he promises to look after all her needs. But Annie pines for her lost family, most especially for Luke, her half brother, the loving confidant of her childhood. Soon she becomes lost in the despair of the decaying mansion. Then Annie discovers the secret cottage owned by Tony’s brother Troy, and the mystery deepens!

Web of Dreams

The Casteel family saga concludes with this fifth and final book as Annie and Luke return to Farthinggale Manor to finally put her past behind her. But the Manor still holds one final key to the mysteries surrounding her family. GHOSTS FROM THE SHADOWS OF THE PAST On their return to Farthinggale Manor, the mystery shrouded luxury home of the Tatterton family, Annie and Luke believe that they will be putting the past finally to rest, and bringing peace to the spirit of Annie’s mother, Heaven. But Annie discovers a diary at Farthinggale. There she finds the story of her grandmother, Leigh, and of her great grandparents. Born into the privileged life of Boston’s wealthy clas*ses, Leigh hopes for happiness. Her dreams are shattered, however, when her parents divorce, and her mother Jillian marries Tony Tatterton. The awful shadow cast by the Tatterton family over the lives of the next three generations begins to spread!

Dawn

In her fine new Virginia school, Dawn Longchamp feels happy and safe. But nothing is what it seems…
Now Dawn and her older brother Jimmy have a chance for a decent, respectable life, and Dawn’s secret, precious hope to study singing can come true. Philip Cutler, the handsomest boy in school, sets Dawn’s heart on fire. She is deeply devoted to her brooding brother; but with Philip, she imagines a lovely dream of romance…
Then Dawn’s mother suddenly dies, and her entire world begins to crumble. After a terrible new shock, she is thrust into a different family and an evil web of unspoken sins. Her sweet innocence lost, humiliated and scorned, Dawn is desperate to find Jimmy again and…
strip away the wicked lies that will change all their lives forever!

Secrets of the Morning

Shadowed by her tortured past, Dawn has a bright new life of glimmering hopes…
Dawn can hardly believe she’s a student at one of New York City’s best music schools. Now her most precious wish, to become a singer, can come true. But Dawn still dreams about Jimmy, her strong, intense boyfriend, and the love and anguished secrets they share. Then Michael Sutton arrives, a new teacher at the school, a singing star and the most wonderful looking man Dawn has ever seen. Together they create a world of feeling Dawn has never known. In his embrace Dawn awakens to disturbing, unfamiliar desires, and Michael’s promises offer a vision of music and romance forever…
until he disappears. Dazed by his cruelty, alone with the bitter fruit of his betrayal, Dawn becomes, once again, a victim of her grandmothers twisted schemes. Desolate, she clings to the tender hope that Jimmy will return and renew with her their deepest hearts’ dream…

Twilight’s Child

As Mrs. James Gary Longchamp, Dawn is blissfully happy. But a legacy of deceit and betrayal still haunts her…
At last Dawn can create a haven of warmth and love for her beautiful baby girl, Christie, and her darling Jimmy. Dawn is a huge success as the new owner of the Cutler’s Cove hotel…
and soon she and Jimmy will be blessed with a child of their own. Yet Dawn cannot quell her forebodings of evil. She can sense Grandmother Cutler’s presence everywhere…
can feel her bitter hatred as if the old lady plotted her vengeance from the grave. When Dawn discovers that her brother, Philip, still clings to his mad, shameful passion for her, she is heartstricken. Her spiteful, jealous sister, Clara, is far easier to ignore…
until the day Clara’s childish rage explodes into violence, destroying Dawn’s most cherished, precious dream. Then Christie’s father, debonair singing star Michael Sutton, returns. Now, as the heartaches and scandals of the past threaten to engulf her, Dawn must fight for her steadfast Jimmy…
for only with Jimmy’s love can she find the rainbow at the end of the storm.

Midnight Whispers

Happy and innocent, Dawn’s daughter Christie has grown up in the safest, most loving of homes…
Yet Christie can’t help feeling as if a dark cloud hovers over Cutler’s Cove…
a cloud whose origins lie in her family’s troubled history, and the many questions no one, not even Dawn, will answer. Only one person can always chase away her blues: Gavin, Daddy Jimmy’s young and handsome stepbrother. Then, in one harsh night, Christie’s world is changed forever. She is shocked to discover her Uncle Philip’s unbrotherly love for her mother but even worse is the way he now looks at Christie, his eyes bright with tortured passion. Fleeing to New York City, she finds her real father…
a pathetic, helpless has been. Desperate and heartbroken, she turns to Gavin, who travels with her to The Meadows, the plantation where Christie was born. In Gavin’s arms, in the first, tender moments of true love, Christie finds a refuge from her painful memories. But The Meadows is blighted by its own dark secrets and all too soon Christie is torn from Gavin’s embrace. Now as black storms of evil gather around her, Christie must struggle to break the cruel bonds of the past…
to defy the curse that has haunted Cutler’s Cove for generations…
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Darkest Hour

Lillian’s world is full of grand parties, of sunshine and promises. No one, not even her cold, stern Papa and her Bible spouting sister Emily, can crush her spirits until Emily reveals the shattering secret of Emily’s birth. Lillian refuses to believe that she is evil but when tragedy befalls She finds a strange solace in the endless prayers in a room stripped of all comforts. Then Papa loses the house in a card game and Lillian is faced with a choice let the family lose their home or marry Bill Cutler and make a new beginning as the mistress of a hotel called Cutler’s Cove.

Willow

All that glitters isn’t gold…
. Willow Wealth. Extravagant parties. Celebrity status. These are things Willow De Beers could only dream of until now. After discovering deep family secrets in her adoptive father’s journal, Willow bids farewell to her North Carolina college town and sets out in search of her birth family amid the ritzy glamour of Palm Beach. Using an assumed name and pretending to conduct a study of one of the nation’s wealthiest communities, Willow takes Florida’s gem city by storm and quickly encounters Thatcher Eaton, a young lawyer who sweeps her off her feet. But as Willow spirals into a passionate love affair and becomes intoxicated with the lifestyle of the rich and famous, the dark truth about her birth family threatens her fabulous new life, pushing her to the brink of insanity…
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Wicked Forest

IN A WORLD OF HIDDEN DANGERS, IT’S EASY TO GET LOST…
. After discovering her true identity, Willow De Beers leaves her North Carolina town to live with her real mother and her half brother in Palm Beach, Florida. Now caught up in a world of glamour and extravagant wealth where nosy neighbors, fueled by gossip and greed, keep an eye on her eccentric family Willow is determined to make a fresh start. Thatcher Eaton, the debonair attorney, uses his intoxicating charm once again, this time convincing Willow to give him her hand in marriage. It’s to be the ritziest wedding of the decade, even by Palm Beach standards. But as future plans are made, families feud and rumors fly and Willow soon learns the horrifying truth: from the darkest of secrets, there is no escape…
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Twisted Roots

The perfect family…
and the perfect nightmare.

Twisted Roots

From the outside, Hannah Eaton seems to live a charmed life in wealthy Palm Beach, Florida, with her mother, Willow, a renowned psychologist, and her stepfather. But deep inside, she is miserable and lonely. She’s been abandoned by her father, a pretentious lawyer whose family wants nothing to do with her. Now, the arrival of a new baby brother has consumed her mother, who is obsessed with caring for the sickly infant. And so, Hannah slips further into the shadows…
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With the help of her boyfriend and her uncle, Hannah sets out for New Orleans to follow her dreams of singing. But life on the road holds many dark surprises and shattering realities that Hannah herself may not be ready to face…
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Into the Woods

Her life would never be the same once she ventured…

Into the Woods

The only child of a U.S. naval officer father and a charming mother, Grace Houston is the center of her parents’ universe until sudden tragedy tears her world apart. Now Grace and her mother, Jackie Lee, move from the naval base in Virginia to ritzy Palm Beach, Florida, to start all over again. It’s hard enough being the new girl but Grace is enrolled at a prestigious private school where what you wear is more important than who you are. Now her own mother is pressuring her to do whatever it takes to be accepted by the in crowd. But Grace just wants to close her eyes and disappear…
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Soon Jackie Lee marries a sophisticated millionaire, Winston Montgomery, who is her ticket to high society. But happiness once again vanishes into the shadows…
and it’s not long before the young and dashing Kirby Scott works his way into Jackie Lee’s life. He’s got his eye on her newly inherited fortune and something much more precious: her beautiful, innocent daughter…
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Hidden Leaves

The truth could not be revealed until now…
. A fter the tragic death of her adoptive father, Willow De Beers receives an unexpected gift: a family diary that unlocks all the secrets of her world and shatters the life she’s known in glitzy Palm Beach, Florida. At last, Willow learns the identity of her real father, and unearths his secret love affair with her real mother. She discovers the reasons for her adoptive mother’s cruelty…
and the truth about the mysterious woman who couldn’t keep her, but would love her forever. Look inside for the original e book prequel Dark Seed first time in print! Also inside…
a preview of the thrilling Broken Wings series coming soon from Pocket Star Books

Delia’s Crossing

After her parents are killed in a truck accident, Delia Yebarra’s life is turned upside down. At fifteen, she leaves the rural Mexican village where she grew up and embarks on a new life in America. Coming to her wealthy aunt Isabella’s huge estate in Palm Springs, California, should be a dream come true for a simple country girl like Delia so why does it feel like a nightmare?

Her aunt refuses to acknowledge Delia’s heritage, relegating her to servants’ quarters with a licentious language tutor intent on exploiting a beautiful young foreigner. Her cousin Edward is kind, but cousin Sophia is cruel, manipulative, and resentful of Delia’s smoky Latina looks. And just when Delia tries to embrace the life of a real American girl, a heartbreaking chain of events sends her spiraling back to a Mexico she hardly recognizes…
. Will Delia find a place to call home?

Delia’s Heart

Delia Yebarra survived a treacherous desert crossing to protect her friend Ignacio from murder charges. Now, the time has come once again to leave her tiny Mexican hometown: Delia’s cousin Edward convinces her to return to his world of wealth and privilege in Palm Springs, and soon Delia, a beautiful and popular senior at an exclusive private school, is living the American dream. But Delia will quickly discover that high society has a very dark underside.

Delia’s malicious cousin Sophia is sparking horrific rumors with Delia at their center. Racing to do damage control, Delia’s mortified aunt Isabela introduces her troublesome niece to the handsome son of a wealthy Mexican American politician. An attraction sparks and a whirlwind romance begins…
but Delia’s Heart won’t let her forget her humble roots or Ignacio. And when tragedy tears her world apart, will it be too late to save the one she cares about the most?

Delia’s Gift

Delia Yebarra survived a treacherous desert crossing to protect her friend Ignacio from murder charges. Now, the time has come once again to leave her tiny Mexican hometown: Delia’s cousin Edward convinces her to return to his world of wealth and privilege in Palm Springs, and soon Delia, a beautiful and popular senior at an exclusive private school, is living the American dream. But Delia will quickly discover that high society has a very dark underside.

Delia’s malicious cousin Sophia is sparking horrific rumors with Delia at their center. Racing to do damage control, Delia’s mortified aunt Isabela introduces her troublesome niece to the handsome son of a wealthy Mexican American politician. An attraction sparks and a whirlwind romance begins…
but Delia’s heart won’t let her forget her humble roots or Ignacio. And when tragedy tears her world apart, will it be too late to save the one she cares about the most?

Flowers in the Attic

‘This is the Extroardinary Novel That Has Captured Millions in Its Spell! All across America and around the world, millions of readers have been captivated by this strange, dark, terriifying tale of passion and peril in the lives of four innoocent children, locked away from the world by a selfish mother. Flowers in the Attic is the novel that launched the extraordinary career of V.C. Andrews , winning her an immediate and fiercely devoted worldwide following; today there are more than 85 million copies of her books in print.’

Petals on the Wind

The bestselling phenomenon of the Dollanganger family saga continues, as the children who escaped the attic build new lives, haunted by their tragic past. The children now growing to adulthood had survived their imprisonment in the dark attic and had broken free to the sunlit world outside. But they found that the horror and pain of their captivity would not leave them. The memory of it would not allow them to lead ordinary lives. Was it their fault? Was there something strange about them? Only their mother could help them. Only revenge could satisfy them!

If There Be Thorns

Chris and Cathy made such a loving home for fourteen year old Jory so handsome, so gentle. And for Bart,who had such a dazzling imagination for a nine year old. Then the lights came on in the house next door. Soon the Old Lady in Black was there, watching them, guarded by her strange old butler. Soon she had Bart over for cookies and ice cream and asked him to call her ‘Grandmother’. And soon Bart’s transformation began…
Fed by the hint of terrible things about his mother and father…
leading him into shocking acts of violence. Now while this little boy trembles on the edge of madness, his anguished parents await the climax to a horror that flowered in an attic long ago, a horror whose thorns are still wet with blood, still tipped with fire.

Seeds of Yesterday

The final, heartbreaking story in the compelling saga that began with ‘Flowers in the Attic’, repackaged for a new generation of fans. Cathy and Chris, haunted by the tragedies and sins of the past, return at last to Foxworth Hall where they were hidden so long ago. Despite every endeavour, they find that they are prisoners of a past they cannot escape, and with a terrifying certainty, the past comes back to prey upon them once more!

Garden of Shadows

The prequel to the compelling saga that began with ‘Flowers in the Attic’, repackaged for a new generation of fans. THEIR DARKEST SECRETS WOULD TURN TO SHAME AND HAUNT THEIR CHILDREN’S CHILDREN. Olivia Winfield’s hopes blossomed when the dashing Malcolm Foxworth asked her to marry him. But her hopes withered like flowers in the scorching sun when his true nature was revealed. Foxworth Hall, the beautiful home that should have given them so much happiness, became like a prison to her, with Malcolm the cruellest of jailers. Suddenly, unexpectedly, the hand of friendship was offered to Olivia when Alicia, her father in law’s new young bride, came to Foxworth Hall. The two women were unlikely companions, but soon the laughter of their youth filled the gloomy place. Yet over them both loomed the shadow of Malcolm, whose dark desires were to sow the seeds of a shocking secret that would lead in time to a darkened, locked attic room!

Broken Flower

SHE WAS TOO GROWN UP FOR CHILDISH GAMES. BUT TOO YOUNG TO BECOME A WOMAN…
. Living with her parents and brother, Ian, in her Grandmother Emma’s enormous mansion, Jordan March tries to be a good girl and follow her grandmother’s strict rules. It’s easy for Jordan to hide in the shadows between Ian’s brilliant, all consuming talents for science and the ever more frequent arguments among the grown ups. But one day, without warning, Jordan’s body begins to change and everyone notices her in a way that seems dark, dangerous, and threatening. Suddenly the March family secrets are unleashed, and Jordan is ashamed and afraid that her soft curves are unwelcome indeed. Shipped off to a lakeside hideaway, Jordan and Ian befriend a girl whose shocking revelations make for a summer of scandal and explosive emotion. Outraged, Grandmother Emma sets out to make Jordan pay for her family’s past mistakes, sending her world spinning wildly out of control…
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Scattered Leaves

She was supposed to be hidden away. But when the truth is exposed, she can’t stay silent…
. After tragedy tears her family apart, Jordan March is shipped off by her domineering Grandmother Emma to live with Emma’s long forgotten sister. Shuttered in a rundown farmhouse, Aunt Frances is the strangest person Jordan has ever met. Why has Grandmother hidden away this fragile, harmless woman did Frances grow up much too fast, like Jordan did? In the shadows of the farmhouse, Jordan is about to unearth the shattering truth and the March family will never be the same…
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Celeste

He was her mirror image. Now the mirror has cracked.

Celeste and her identical twin brother, Noble, are as close as can be until a tragic accident takes Noble’s life. It’s a loss that pushes their mother, a woman obsessed with New Age superstitions, over the edge…
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Desperate to keep her son ‘alive,’ Celeste‘s mother forces her to cut her hair, wear boys’ clothes, and take on Noble’s identity. Celeste has virtually disappeared until a handsome boy moves in next door, and Celeste will risk her mother’s wrath to let herself come back to life.

Black Cat

She hid her true self. Now the truth will be revealed. Living a life of lies under the thumb of her widowed, spiritually obsessed mother, Celeste has been forced to take on the identity of her dead twin brother, Noble. She’s almost forgotten what it’s like to be Celeste except for the one thing that keeps her sane: caring for her darling daughter, Baby Celeste. But when Celeste’s mother marries a kindly neighbor, a new breed of poisonous secrets and vicious enemies will force Celeste to do what she must to survive the darkness…
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Child of Darkness

She grew up in the shadows of lies. Now the past will come to light. As a child, she was Baby Celeste, the one thing that kept her mother in touch with reality. But now her mother is in an institution, and sixteen year old Celeste Atwell is alone in the world. Adopted by a wealthy couple, Celeste has everything a girl could desire: designer clothes, luxury cars, even a handsome boyfriend. But her indulgence may come at a steep price because the secrets hidden within her new family are too dangerous to keep under wraps…
. Also in the bestselling Gemini series from V.C. Andrews be sure to read Celeste and Black Cat, available from Pocket Star Books!

The Heavenstone Secrets

SECRETS ARE AT HOME HERE…
The Heavenstone sisters live with their mother and father in a grand old mansion in bluegrass Kentucky. Semantha, the younger and prettier one, is afraid of so many things darkness, strange noises, mysterious whispers in the night. But nothing frightens her more than her sister, Cassie. She is older and wiser, and always telling Semantha what to do, what to wear, and how to behave around those wicked boys at school. Semantha has her eye on one special guy but Cassie has other plans for her. In the Heavenstone house, big sister knows best…
. AND THERE S NO ESCAPE. When tragedy strikes like a lightning bolt from heaven, Semantha’s life becomes a living hell. Under Cassie s constant, watchful eye, she feels like a prisoner a helpless pawn in her sister s cruel game. When Cassie begins wearing their mother s clothes and vying for their father s affections, Semantha realizes she must bring their twisted sibling rivalry to an end…
before a new generation is born.

Secret Whispers

THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME…
On the eve of her graduation from an exclusive private school, shy wallflower Semantha Heavenstone is caught in a whirl of scandal and betrayal. Now, she’s returned to the grand Kentucky mansion where painful memories of her mother and her older sister, Cassie, are as potent as newly mown bluegrass. It seems no matter where she goes, Semantha is haunted by a voice from the grave spiteful, domineering Cassie, whose taunts and manipulations seem as real as when she was alive…
. AND NO END TO THE NIGHTMARESoon her father will remarry, new memories and a new stepmother will replace the past…
and Semantha herself has a chance at a bright future with a career inside the Heavenstone empire and handsome Ethan Hunter by her side. But someone will see to it that Semantha never forgets the tragedies of yesterday. Will Cassie’s ghostly hold on Semantha destroy her hope and drive her to madness?

Rain

RAIN ALREADY KNOWS HOW HARD LIFE CAN BE. BUT SHE IS ABOUT TO DISCOVER A SHATTERING SECRET FROM THE PAST THAT WILL CHANGE HER FUTURE FOREVER…
. Growing up in the ghettos of Washington, D.C., the cards are stacked against a hardworking dreamer like Rain Arnold. Rain has fought to be the best daughter she can: she studies hard and gets good grades; she helps her mother cook and clean. And unlike her defiant younger sister, she avoids the dangers of the city streets as if her life depends on it…
and it does. But Rain can’t suppress the feeling that she has never truly fit in, that she is a stranger in her own world. Then one fateful night, Rain overhears something she shouldn’t: a heartbreaking revelation from the past, a long buried secret that is about to change her life in ways she never could have imagined. In the blink of an eye, everything Rain has ever known the family she has loved and the familiar place she has called home is left behind, and Rain is sent to live with total strangers, the wealthy Hudson family. But just as she did not belong to the troubled world she was raised in, Rain is also out of place in this realm of luxury and privilege. With nowhere to turn, Rain finds an escape in the theater, inside the walls of an exclusive private school. But will it be enough to fulfill her heart’s deepest wish and give her a place to call home?

Lightning Strikes

RAIN HAS SEARCHED FOR A PLACE TO CALL HOME. BUT THERE’S NOWHERE TO HIDE WHEN THE NIGHT SKY LIGHTS UP WITH TERROR…
. Torn from the embrace of her poor but loving family, Rain Arnold now lives surrounded by opulent riches but feels more like an outsider than ever before. Her heart’s true passion the theater may prove to be her salvation, as she embarks on a journey to unmask a legacy of long buried family secrets. Enrolled in one of England’s most prestigious drama schools, Rain is sent to London to live with her great aunt, Lenora, of the renowned Endfield family. Their estate is breathtakingly austere, filled with antiques and a long, storied history. But something isn’t right. Rain hears footsteps at night, and the high pitched laughter of a little girl. She sees strange lights in rooms that are supposed to be closed off. And everything about the place the air, the silence, even the somber household staff is as cold and soulless as a museum. Behind the icy sheen of wealth and privilege lies something unspeakable. Something that could turn Rain’s most precious dreams into an inescapable nightmare…
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Eye of the Storm

In the wake of a terrible loss, Rain is left alone to bear the Hudson family secreets as dark and forbidding as storm clouds on the horizon…
After the death of her beloved Grandmother Hudson, Rain found herself caught in a battle for the vast Hudson family wealth. Marked to inherit millions, Rain faced the fury of her unaccepting mother, her manipulative stepfather, and her cold, vicious Aunt Victoria. But no amount of money can keep Rain’s world from crashing down when sudden tragedy strikes. Left helpless after a devastating blow, Rain sinks into despair as her precious dreams are washed away…
dreams that cannot be bought with the Hudson fortune. Her only hope for rebuilding her life rests in trusting a stranger who has come into her world a man whose generosity and kindness does not appear to come with strings attached, much to Rain’s amazement. But just as she opens her heart to a promising new future, her past comes back to haunt her and Rain is pulled into a furious whirlpool of bitterness and heartache.

The End of the Rainbow

WAS THE HUDSON FAMILY DESTINED TO LIVE IN THE SHADOWS OF THE PAST? OR WOULD LUCK SHINE ON THE NEWEST GENERATION? THE ANSWER LIES AT…

The End of the Rainbow

Rain’s precious daughter, Summer, is about to turn sixteen. Her future lies wide open before her and she carries her mother’s wise advice close to her heart: life is hardship, but above all, life is hope. Like all girls her age, Summer dreams of growing up and making her own life, of falling in love and finding her soul mate.

But a devastating tragedy will force Summer to stare into the cold eyes of adulthood long before she is ready. She will learn very quickly about hardship but what of hope? Is she as strong as her courageous mother? Or will she crumble?

All her life, Summer has lived on the Virginia estate where the Hudson family’s secrets have lurked among the shadows for generations. Now it is time for Summer to discover secrets of her own. Some she will keep. Some she will share. Some will force her to flee the only place she has ever called home. And some will haunt her for the rest of her life…
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Daughter of Darkness

When I was a little girl, Daddy told me never to fear the dark. We exist because of the darkness, he told me. All of you are daughters of darkness. Beloved bestselling author V.C. Andrews’s passion for vampires comes to spellbinding life in a long awaited novel of dark desires as all consuming and forbidden as in Flowers in the Attic. One night, with the sound of a young man s scream, high school senior Lorelei discovers that her stern but loving father, who adopted Lorelei and her sisters as infants, is no ordinary man. He has raised his beautiful girls for one purpose: to lure young men into their world of shadows. Like her sisters, Lorelei has been trained in the art of seduction and warned never to fall in love. But when she meets a handsome and charming classmate, she boldly defies her family and follows her heart even if love is a poison…
. Dangerously enticing and deliriously intoxicating, V.C. Andrews s Daughter of Darkness will leave readers thirsting for more.

Ruby

In the heart of the bayou, Ruby Landry lives a simple, happy life. But innocence can’t last forever…
The only family Ruby Landry has ever known are her loving guardian, Grandm re Catherine, a Cajun spiritual healer, and her drunken, outcast Grandp rb Jack. Although thinking about her dead mother and mysterious father sometimes makes her feel as mournful as the wind sighing through the Spanish moss, Ruby is grateful for all she has. Her life is filled with hope and promise…
especially when her attraction for handsome Paul Tate blossoms into a mysterious, wonderful love. But Paul’s wealthy parents forbid him to associate with a poor Landry, and Grandm re urges her to follow her dream of becoming a great painter, foreseeing a time when Ruby will be surrounded with riches in the dazzling city of New Orleans! Yet she cannot know how close that uncertain future looms…
. In a faded photograph, Ruby glimpses for the first time the image of her father and learns of a shameful deception and a shocking scheme of blackmail that now must come to light. Stunned by these revelations, she is devastated when Grandm re dies, leaving her to seek out her father in his vast New Orleans mansion. There, in a house of lies, madness, and cruel torment, Ruby clings to her memories of Paul to keep her heart alive. For only their love can save her now…
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Pearl in the Mist

Fate whisked Ruby from a simple life in the Louisiana Bayou. But her new riches bring more treachery than happiness…
Even after a year as a Dumas, Ruby still wonders at the splendor of the family’s New Orleans mansion, and rejoices in the love of the father she had never known. But true happiness in her new home is as elusive as d swamp mist. Ruby must carefully avoid a venomous enemy: her stepmother, Daphne, who cringes and sneers at her backwater upbringing. And Ruby’s every effort to befriend her twin sister, Gisselle especially since Gisselle’s crippling accident is answered with bitterness and vicious backstabbing. So idyllic Greenwood the exclusive girls’ boarding school that her father has chosen for his daughters’ senior year seems to promise some peace from the conniving Daphne, and maybe even a fresh start with Gisselle. But Ruby’s kind isn’t welcome at Greenwood, and the legendarily strict headmistress, Mrs. Ironwood, plots with her stepmother to make her life miserable. Meanwhile, Gisselle is on a mission to break every school rule, leaving Ruby to suffer the humiliating punishments. But Ruby doesn’t lose hope until a terrible tragedy leaves her alone in a world that never really wanted her. Ruby will have to summon every last ounce of her Cajun strength to reclaim her home, her future, and the happiness she once knew…
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All That Glitters

Driven from the Dumas Mansion back to her beloved bayou, Ruby’s only hope is that fate will let her begin anew…

Living again in a humble shack, Ruby is determined to make a secure and happy home for her precious infant daughter, Pearl. Paul Tate her first love, whom she was forced to abandon is at her side once more, now a man of dazzling wealth. When he whisks her into his grand house, it seems their future is assured. As mistress of Cypress Woods, Ruby can forget even the shocking reason she and Paul must wed in a secret ceremony and remain husband and wife in name alone.

But the thick, expensive walls of Cypress Woods cannot shut out the terrible memories that have woven their fabric over her destiny, or the cold eyes of Paul’s mother, Gladys, reminding Ruby of the secret she must keep to give Pearl a loving father. Then her venomous twin sister, Gisselle, arrives to taunt her with news of Beau Andreas, the true father Pearl has never met, and the only man Ruby will ever long for with all her body and soul, Desperate to find the complete, fulfilling life she craves, Ruby builds a precarious new existence, a flimsy shanty of hope that the first flood washes away. Only when the storm exposes the very blackest evils of the past will she glimpse the rainbow’s fragile promise, a morning of sunshine and laughter with a family of her own…
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Hidden Jewel

Tarnished Gold is the captivating prequel to the bestselling V. C. Andrews Landry series that began with Ruby and continued with Pearl in the Mist, All That Glitters, and Hidden Jewel. This thrilling new novel takes us back to the Louisiana bayou in the time before Ruby. In a world of wondrous natural beauty, a world of tantalizing dreams and inescapable sorrow, we meet Gabriel Landry, daughter of Catherine and Jack. Growing up in her beloved swamp, Gabriel is supremely happy, despite the ever widening rift between her Mama and her conniving, whiskey drinking Daddy. Her classmates tease her, calling her ‘La Femme Au Naturel,’ the Nature Girl, because she seems more interested in poling her pirogue through the canals than she is in romance. But Gabriel nurtures her own secret dreams. Then, days before her high school graduation, rich cannery owner Octavious Tate surprises her in a secluded pond and shatters her innocence. Pregnant and desolate, wishing to spare her dear Mama the scandal, Gabriel agrees to a shocking plan that will allow Octavious’s frigid wife Gladys to claim the baby as her own and will net Gabriel’s furious Daddy a huge payoff. Hiding in a tiny abandoned playroom in the Tate mansion, Gabriel is miserable. Her only visitor is Mama, whose mission as a Traiteur, a Cajun healer, gives her an excuse to treat Gladys Tate’s ‘pregnancy.’ But nothing is more wrenching than the moment Gladys takes baby Paul away forever. Returning home to the swamp, Gabriel drifts in a world of twilight gloom, brightened only by chance glimpses of her son. But as Jack Landry’s reputation as a swamp guide grows, a hunting party brings handsome, gentle Creole millionaire Pierre Dumas to the bayou. Falling desperately in love, Gabriel will not heed the voice warning that their joy may bring her more grief than she can bear…
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Tarnished Gold

Tarnished Gold is the captivating prequel to the bestselling V. C. Andrews Landry series that began with Ruby and continued with Pearl in the Mist, All That Glitters, and Hidden Jewel. This thrilling new novel takes us back to the Louisiana bayou in the time before Ruby. In a world of wondrous natural beauty, a world of tantalizing dreams and inescapable sorrow, we meet Gabriel Landry, daughter of Catherine and Jack. Growing up in her beloved swamp, Gabriel is supremely happy, despite the ever widening rift between her Mama and her conniving, whiskey drinking Daddy. Her classmates tease her, calling her ‘La Femme Au Naturel,’ the Nature Girl, because she seems more interested in poling her pirogue through the canals than she is in romance. But Gabriel nurtures her own secret dreams. Then, days before her high school graduation, rich cannery owner Octavious Tate surprises her in a secluded pond and shatters her innocence. Pregnant and desolate, wishing to spare her dear Mama the scandal, Gabriel agrees to a shocking plan that will allow Octavious’s frigid wife Gladys to claim the baby as her own and will net Gabriel’s furious Daddy a huge payoff. Hiding in a tiny abandoned playroom in the Tate mansion, Gabriel is miserable. Her only visitor is Mama, whose mission as a Traiteur, a Cajun healer, gives her an excuse to treat Gladys Tate’s ‘pregnancy.’ But nothing is more wrenching than the moment Gladys takes baby Paul away forever. Returning home to the swamp, Gabriel drifts in a world of twilight gloom, brightened only by chance glimpses of her son. But as Jack Landry’s reputation as a swamp guide grows, a hunting party brings handsome, gentle Creole millionaire Pierre Dumas to the bayou. Falling desperately in love, Gabriel will not heed the voice warning that their joy may bring her more grief than she can bear…
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Melody

Melody Logan knew her beautiful mother, Haille, was unhappy in their hardscrabble mining town…
. But with her wonderful father’s unwavering love, Melody always felt safe until a dreadful mine accident ripped her from her family’s moorings. She was still devastated by her father’s death when she left West Virginia with Haille to follow her mother’s dream of becoming a model or actress. But first they stopped in Cape Cod to visit her father’s family at last. Melody knew only that her grandparents had disowned their son when he married Haille just because she was an orphan, her mother said. Yet moments after Melody first laid eyes on dour, Bible spouting Uncle Jacob, nervous Aunt Sara, and her cousins handsome Cary, whose twin, Laura, had been killed recently in a sailing accident, and sweet, deaf little May Haille announced that Melody was to live with them. Sleeping in Laura’s old room, Melody was awash in a sea of grief and confusion, with only her beloved fiddle to comfort her. Then Cary revealed the truth he’d gleaned about her parents a sad shocking story that only puzzled her more. Melody knew nothing of the dark deceptions that would soon surface…
the devastating betrayals she would face before she glimpsed the faint, beckoning lights of a safe harbor…
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Heart Song

Melody Logan was as alone as a solitary gull, with only the wild Atlantic wind to lift her spirits…
. When Melody Logan’s mother died in a car accident, Melody lost the last shred of family she had ever known. She was practically a stranger to the Logans, her wealthy relatives on Cape Cod, where she now drifted on a sea of dark secrets. In the eyes of gentle Aunt Sara, Melody was a replacement for her dead daughter, while for Uncle Jacob she was a reminder of the family’s shameful past. Only good hearted Cary seemed to care, and since it was revealed that she and Cary weren’t truly cousins, the affection that had always surged between them now crested in thrilling waves. But Melody knew she could never truly echo Cary’s loving promises until she discovered her own buried identity. Despite Grandma Olivia’s daggerlike threats, Melody sought out Belinda, a mysterious, half crazy woman who was her real grandmother. Belinda gave Melody hope and a glimmer of the pearls of truth she knew were hidden in the shifting Cape Cod sands. Somehow, someday, the story of her past would be her hard won treasure, to be savored in a world of sunshine and happiness…
where she truly belonged.

Unfinished Symphony

Melody Logan had only just found a safe harbor when a new storm set her adrift all over again…
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Melody had always believed her mother, Haille, and dear stepdaddy had died in tragic accidents that’s why she’d come to stay with her secretive Logan relatives on Cape Cod. But then a friend recognized Haille’s picture in a catalog and kindled Melody’s hopes. Maybe her mother hadn’t perished in a fire in California after all, but was in some desperate trouble that kept her out of reach…
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Melody’s dream of finding her mother seemed as flimsy as the scrap of paper that was her only clue. And despite the pampered life Melody was offered as a guest in a Beverly Hills mansion, nothing could soften the blow of the moment she stood face to face with her mother and saw her eyes turn dark and cold as stones. Melody knew there must be a reason why her mother pretended at first not to recognize her and why she’d even faked her own death. Though Melody’s beloved Cary beckoned from Cape Cod, she felt in her heart that her mother needed her now more than ever. And beneath her mother’s unkept promises and tattered fantasies, Melody hoped to unearth the truth about her own past, and find her way to a safer, better place…
where she could embrace a bright new future of her own.

Music in the Night

Laura Logan dreams of a glorious Cape Cod day when all the dark secrets are swept away…
. For Laura Logan, life on Cape Cod has been nearly perfect, full of magical days spent enjoying the sea with her beloved twin brother, Cary. But then, like the creeping of the tides, the vicious rumors at school begin cruel voices saying unspeakable things about the Logans. Laura tries to ignore them, but not until handsome, gentle Robert Royce moves to their town does she feel truly carefree and happy again. While Robert’s smile drives the shadows from Laura’s heart, she still worries about Cary, whose gloomy moods drift in like the coastal fog. And then Grandma Olivia issues a chilling threat, forbidding Laura to see Robert ever again. Alone to suffer because of dark secrets no one will explain, Laura obeys…
until the miracle of a glorious summer leads her back into Robert’s arms. But dark thunderclouds have been gathering on the horizon, and when they suddenly burst with tragedy, they howl a name from the Logans’ shameful past that plunges Laura into a silent, terrible agony. Now Laura can only dream of the warm, sun filled life she so desperately desires…
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Olivia

The shocking secrets of this New York Times bestselling series are finally revealed in the gripping story of the good girl who watched as her spoiled sister wreaked havoc. Sensible and responsible, Olivia Logan took after her father, a man as cold and driven as the Cape Cod wind. She would take over his million dollar businesses. She would become the family’s resilient caretaker whether she wanted to be or not. But Olivia‘s sister Belinda belonged only to herself. Flighty, flirtatious, and beautiful, she was lavished with attention. And as she matured into a young woman, she vowed never to grow up, to remain forever an enchanting little girl to be worshipped and cared for. Then came that fateful night, when Olivia was awakened by the low whistle of the wind off the ocean…
a whistle that became an unearthly wail coming from Belinda’s bedroom. It was the tragic, unforgettable night that their father would forbid them to speak of ever again. The night that would send generations of Logans down an unavoidable path of lies, deceit, and heartbreak.

Butterfly

All she wanted was to be someone’s little girl…
. Fate made her a lonely orphan, yearning for the embrace of a real family and a loving home. But a golden chance at a new life may not be enough to escape the dark secrets of her past…
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Crystal

ALL SHE WANTED WAS A FAMILY SHE COULD CALL HER OWN…
. As an orphan girl, Crystal was one of many and utterly alone. But she still dreamed of a shining life of love and happiness, and freedom from the dark legacy of her past…

Brooke

ALL SHE WANTED WAS AN END TO BROKEN PROMISES…
. Her Mama made it painfully clear that she wished Raven had never been born. But even after she was sent to live with her kindly aunt and domineering uncle, humiliating secrets lurked and threatened to dash forever Raven’s dream of a true home…
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Raven

ALL SHE WANTED WAS AN END TO BROKEN PROMISES…
. Her Mama made it painfully clear that she wished Raven had never been born. But even after she was sent to live with her kindly aunt and domineering uncle, humiliating secrets lurked and threatened to dash forever Raven‘s dream of a true home…
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Runaways

The spellbinding Orphans series concludes in this thrilling new novel from V.C. Andrews…
‘All for one and one for all’ was the girls’ motto. In the grim foster home for orphans run by Louise and Gordon Tooey, at least Brooke, Crystal, Raven, and Butterfly had each other. Calling themselves ‘sisters,’ together they could forget the past and dream of a new chance…
a real home. Then they discovered a secret even more haunting than Gordon’s heavy boots pounding on the wooden floors. Their fragile hopes of a better life shattered, they escaped the only way they could. Soon they were Runaways in a borrowed car, desperately wishing to wake up one morning in a place of sunshine and love. Raven hoped to be a singer, Butterfly wanted to be a dancer, Crystal planned for college, and Brooke privately hoped to find her mother in California. On the open road the chains of sadness that had bound them seemed to melt away, and the kindness of strangers made a secure future seem almost real. But the highway was a dangerous place, and soon they were penniless and more vulnerable than ever. Alone under the wide western sky, they had only each other to ask if they should give up their dreams…
or if they were really halfway to a haven of safety and happiness…
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Secrets in the Attic

From the imagination behind Flowers in the Attic comes a sensational new novel that spins a seductive web between fantasies and lies and uncovers the price for keeping Secrets in the Attic Two Friends As Close As Sisters. One Killer Secret That Will Tear Their Small Town Apart. In the dust and shadows of the attic, they shared everything fanciful stories, high school crushes, plans for the future, dreams to travel the world. For Karen, the attic is her escape from the reality of her stepfather’s unwanted attention. Together in the eaves of a house with its own murderous history, the best friends concoct a scheme that will put Karen’s stepfather in his place. It wasn’t supposed to turn deadly. But in the attic Karen shares one more secret with her best friend a secret to take to the grave…
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Secrets in the Shadows

Everyone Says Her Mother Was Crazy. Is She Doomed to Repeat the Past? Up in the attic, that’s where Alice’s mother used to escape to…
and it’s where, so Alice has been told, she plotted the murder of her own stepfather. Now, years later, with her mother locked away for life, the attic is where Alice finds comfort in her aloneness, writing poetry and painting pictures. When Alice finally finds the courage to come out of her shell, exchanging her dowdy looks for flattering clothes and makeup, her life completely opens up she even attends the prom with a cute, popular boy. But it’s a night that turns quickly tragic sending her newfound happiness crashing down around her, and hurtling Alice into a shattering new life, one that leads her to a shocking reunion with the shadows she had fled. From the imagination behind Flowers in the Attic comes a sensational new novel that spins a seductive web between fantasies and lies and uncovers the price for keeping Secrets in the Shadows.

April Shadows

APRIL HAD ALWAYS FELT LIKE AN OUTSIDER. Her older sister Brenda was tall, athletic, competitive, and sure of herself. But April Taylor was short, sensitive, and overweight and she couldn’t bounce back from their father’s cutting criticisms the way Brenda did. April didn’t know why their once loving dad had become a coldhearted monster, but she was sure it had something to do with her. And she could see how his cruel behavior was tearing away at her gentle mother. But a glimmer of happiness returns when Brenda brings home her college roommate: beautiful, bewitching Celia. And April wonders if she might not be so different from Brenda after all…
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Girl in the Shadows

SHE WASN’T A LITTLE GIRL ANYMORE BUT WHO WAS SHE REALLY? After an odyssey of heartbreak and betrayal in the wake of losing both her parents, it was mere chance that led April Taylor to the secluded home of a kindly elderly woman and her deaf teenaged granddaughter. There, April found a shelter from her mixed up life, and from the confusion that severed her relationship with her sister, Brenda, after an encounter with Brenda’s girlfriend, Celia. But when a dangerous couple arrives with greedy intentions, April’s survival depends on being true to the one person she’s never fully accepted: herself.

Cinnamon

Cinnamon loves the shadows, because that’s where no one can find her…
For Cinnamon, dreaming of imaginary worlds and characters is her only escape from her mother’s breakdowns. Her grandmother’s overbearing control. Her family’s turmoil. But Cinnamon is discovering something special about herself, a gift from deep within that sets her apart: a talent for the theater that would finally give her a chance…
to truly escape.

Ice

Ice wishes she could just become invisible…
. Ice hides from the world behind a shield of silence. And that is what her mother hates about her. All she wants is a normal daughter who wears makeup and sexy clothes to attract boys. But Ice gets her chance to shine when she reveals her beautiful singing voice. And her extraordinary gift may become her saving grace when tragedy and deception almost destroy her dreams…

Rose

When she danced, she could dream…
Beautiful and talented, Rose was the apple of her father’s eye. But when he is tragically taken from her, his carefully hidden secrets destroy the only life Rose has ever known and lead her into a world of luxury unlike any she has imagined. Rose is whisked off to a prestigious private school, while her mother falls into a hateful whirlwind of wealth and greed. But a most unlikely person will show Rose the true meaning of family and give her the courage to follow her dream…
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Honey

In her music, she found sweet salvation…
. Honey grew up on a farm under her strict, fanatically religious grandfather’s disapproving eye. To him, everything is a sin from her natural born talent for the violin to her innocent interest in boys and dating and life is a treacherous path to be walked in fear. When Honey is paired for music practice with a brilliant piano student, wealthy Chandler Maxwell, she discovers a true soul mate. But when a shocking family secret comes to light, Honey discovers the startling cause of her grandfather’s bitter fury. And her own precious joy may be lost forever…
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Falling Stars

All The World’s A Stage but What If The Play Doesn’t Go As Planned?

Four talented girls from vastly different pasts share a dream of stardom: Cinnamon, the edgy actress; Ice, the phenomenal vocalist; Rose, the beautiful dancer; and Honey, the first rate violinist. The four meet at the prestigious Senetsky School of the Performing Arts housed in an ornate New York City mansion and become instant friends as they take off on a dazzling whirlwind of intense clas*ses, theater outings, and celebrity studded parties. And together they bend the strict house rules of Madame Senetsky, a famous actress who guarantees success for students under her tutelage.

But they soon realize this is no ordinary school. Madame Senetsky pushes the girls’ studies beyond reason. She controls their social lives. And they get the strange feeling someone is watching them.

But who…
and why?

Cinnamon, Ice, Rose, and Honey set out to untangle a shadowy web of Senetsky family secrets. As they explore dark corners and hidden rooms, every creak and moan of the old mansion tells a story too frightening to repeat. A devastating story that can destroy their dreams…

Family Storms

In the eye of the storm…
Living on the streets with her destitute mother, selling knickknacks and trinkets just to survive, Sasha Porter dreams of someday having a normal life, with a real house and family. But she never dreamed a devastating tragedy would bring her those very things: on a stormy night by a rainspattered highway, a speeding car veers out of control, striking and killing her mother and badly injuring Sasha…
. is anywhere truly safe? In the hospital, Sasha is whisked off to a fancy private suite at the request of wealthy Mrs. Jordan March, a complete stranger who keeps watch by Sasha’s bedside and insists she come live at her family s sprawling, luxurious mansion. Sasha soon learns Mrs. March never recovered from the loss of her daughter Alena, and with nowhere else to go, Sasha agrees to use Alena s room, sleep in her bed, and wear her clothes. But someone will make sure that Sasha never takes Alena s place: a jealous sister dead set on making Sasha s life a living hell.

Cloudburst

OUT OF A CLEAR BLUE SKY…
Since being taken in by wealthy Mrs. Jordan March and living in her exquisite home like a daughter, Sasha Porter’s traumatic past destitute on the streets, and the shattering accident that killed her mother seems like a fading nightmare. Beautiful and sophisticated, as bold and daring as her sister, Kiera March, Sasha still keeps her mother s wise words close to her heart: never fully trust anyone. Inside her privileged new world, it s advice that will prove more precious than gold…
. CAN ANYTHING STOP THE DOWNPOUR?Against the wishes of Jordan s husband, Donald, Sasha attracts the attention of Duane Banks, a shy, handsome athlete, and maneuvers her way into his heart. But Duane s hidden torment soon explodes in a horrific tragedy that pulls Sasha into a flood of guilt and despair. And when someone she thought she could trust targets her vulnerability, Sasha recalls her mother s warnings and a violent storm of dark deceptions and shocking family secrets is unleashed. Will she sink or swim?

Misty

‘We lived in such a perfect world. Why were we so imperfect?’ All Misty ever wanted was a normal family. But like so many others, Misty‘s parents didn’t stay together. Now they use Misty to hurt each other, to deliver tiny cruelties in an endless stream. Misty knows her parents might love her. But Misty has an unspeakable secret that burns in the core of her very being: she hates them. Misty isn’t as alone as she thinks. She’s about to meet three other girls who are just like her each one with their own dark secrets to share…
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Star

Star hides her pain, like the other girls in the therapy group that’s supposed to help them. But she knows how she feels deep in her heart. Even though her mother and father are still alive, they are dead to her. Today, it is her turn to reveal her secrets. Star will tell her story to doctor Marlowe and the others, and she will finally face the dark nightmares of her past…
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Jade

Jade had listened to Misty and Star tell their stories. Now it is her time to speak. But she can’t. For while the others in Dr. Marlowe’s therapy group had exposed their hidden pains and secret pasts, they are nothing like Jade. They don’t know what it is like to be a pawn in a courtroom battle too hateful to ever forgive. Or that escaping the madness had lured Jade into an ordeal too traumatic to forget…
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Cat

‘I felt like I was going to my own execution…
.’ Cat had listened patiently as the other three girls in Dr. Marlowe’s therapy group shared their innermost feelings. They had described their broken families honestly, to the point of pain. If Cat doesn’t tell her own tale, the others will see it as a betrayal. So she has no choice. Or does she? Maybe she could lie just make something up. Anything would be better than the truth. For Cat has the darkest, most horrifying secret of them all…
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Into the Garden

They began as strangers four teenage girls with nothing in common but their miserable childhoods. Soon, they would realize that their secret pasts had bound them together forever…
. Misty, Star, Jade, and Cat first came together in Dr. Marlowe’s group therapy sessions. They trusted no one but each other and even that bond was fragile at best. One by one, each of the Wildflowers told her own story and bravely unveiled the inner wounds inflicted by years of lies, deceit, and untold family secrets; each revealed the shocking tales of how their parents hurt them, used them, or simply abandoned them. And as they shared their darkest feelings, they no longer felt like lost souls with nowhere to turn. Finally, years of loneliness and pain gave way to the realization that someone else in this world understood them. But then the sessions ended, and the girls didn’t know if they would ever see each other again. Now they are coming together one more time. Jade has sent out invitations to her parents’ mansion the sprawling, opulent home that served as a battleground for much of her young life. There, the four will rekindle their bonds of friendship and trust. But this time, away from Dr. Marlowe’s watchful eye, it will be different. Today, in the mansion’s attic, Star, Jade, Cat, and Misty will take each other’s hands and swear to tell the real truth the shattering secrets that lie deep within them like smoldering coals. And once the darkest secret of all is spoken aloud, there will be no turning back. For there may be some things the Wildflowers should leave buried forever…
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