Andrews, V. C

After she leaves Boston's Farthinggale Manor carrying a dark secret with her, Leigh VanVoreen turns to Luke Casteel for love, peace, respect, and safety.

Follows the experiences of Heaven, one of the very poor Casteel children who are sold to different families by their father.

The car crash that killed Heaven and Logan left Annie orphaned and crippled. Annie longs for her brother Luke but possessive Tony Tatterton whisks her off to Farthinggale Manor.

Heaven and Logan are persuaded to stay at Farthinggale Manor amidst the Tatterton wealth and privilege. Then the ghosts of Heaven's past rise up to destroy her happiness with scandal and jealousy.

When she moves to Boston to live with her wealthy grandmother, Heaven believes that she has found a place to belong and an opportunity to make something of herself until she begins to realize the terrible truth beneath the glamorous facade of her grandmother's life.

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

Collects the third and forth books in V. C. Andrews's Dollanganger series, including "If There Be Thorns" and "Seeds of Yesterday," which follow Chris and Cathy as they try to protect their children, but fear the mysterious woman living next door, are haunted by the fearful specter of Foxworth Hall, and find they are prisoners of a past they cannot escape.

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.