The story of how the wicked curse of the Dollanganger family begins as it follows the lives of Olivia and Malcolm Foxworth and their three children.

The tale of a gifted teenager who finds that mastering high school is much easier than mastering her heart. Mayfair Cummings is young, beautiful, and brilliant. But her intelligence makes her the outcast of both the private school she attends and the broken family she hopes to salvage. When she catches the eye of both a popular senior and her handsome English teacher, not even her brilliant mind can help her navigate the explosive new relationships...

Seventeen year old Kristin Masterwood is thrilled when her father's construction company is hired to inspect the Foxworth property for a prospective buyer. The once grand Southern mansion still sparks legends and half truths about the four innocent Dollanganger children, even all these decades later. Foxworth holds a special fascination for Kristin, who was too young when her mother died to learn much about her distant blood tie to the notorious family....

"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...

Hearing a young man's scream in the night, high school senior Lorelei discovers that her stern but loving adoptive father is actually a vampire and that he has raised his daughters to seduce and lure men into their world of shadows.

Semantha Heavenstone, returning to Kentucky right before her graduation, confronts the memories of her late sister, Cassie, who was very manipulative, and her mother and hopes to start fresh after her father remarries and she begins working for the Heavenstone empire, but someone makes it difficult for Semantha to forget tragedies in the past.

After listening to Misty and Star tell their stories in their therapy group, it is Jade's turn to reveal her hidden past, and the shameful act that has haunted her for years.

An unhappy and overweight adolescent, April Taylor struggles to cope with the desertion and death of her father, the suicide of her mother, her new life with her lesbian sister, and her doubts about her own sexual orientation.

"A new novel from V.C. Andrews, the legendary author of Flowers in the Attic--now a hit Lifetime TV movie!"--