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

A series of related novels in which four young girls, Misty, Star, Jade, and Cat, who carry heavily guarded pain caused by their families, come together under the care of a therapist, finally baring their secrets.

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....

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...

Alice, a teenager who enjoys spending time alone in the attic where her mother plotted the murder of her stepfather, decides to finally come out of her shell, resulting in a date to the prom and a confrontation with the shadows from her 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.