V. C Andrews

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...

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...

"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...

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.

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.

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.