Since her mother was institutionalized, sixteen-year-old Celeste has been in and out of orphanages. Celeste is overjoyed when Wade and Ami Emerson adopt her. But when she discovers Ami's real reason for adopting her - a reason that involves a sexual tryst with Ami's father-in-law - Celeste is terrified.

After years of self-torture, a young woman comes to terms with her brutal rape.

Book Four of the Dollanganger series that began with "Flowers in the Attic"--The novel of forbidden love that captured the world's imagination and earned V.C. Andrews a fiercely devoted fanbase. They escaped their mother's hellish trap years ago, but a cruel history of lies and deceit has come full circle ... The forbidden love that blossomed when Cathy and Christopher were held captive in Foxworth Hall is one the Dollanganger family's darkest secrets....

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.

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....

As the new owner of the Cutler's Cove hotel and with her darling Jimmy and her beautiful daughter Christie, Dawn has everything she could ever hope for--but she can't seem to quell her forebodings of evil. She can sense Grandmother Cutler's hateful presence everywhere, as if the old lady is plotting vengeance from the grave. When Dawn discovers that her brother still clings to his mad, shameful passion for her, she is horrified. Her spiteful, jealous...

Olivia, always the responsible older daughter, grows up feeling ignored in favor of her flighty, flirtatious sister Belinda, but as the girls grow older Olivia comes to relish the power of being in charge and uses that power to control the people in her life.