Andrews, V. C

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.

Hannah Eaton, living with her wealthy mother and stepfather in Palm Beach, Florida, and neglected by her biological father, feels even more left out when her mother gives birth to a sickly baby boy; she makes a drastic decision to leave home and set out for New Orleans to pursue a singing career.

After her adoptive father's death, Willow De Beers receives an old family diary that finally reveals the identity of her real father. Also includes the prequel "Dark Seed," originally published as an e-book.

A shocking secret threatens the happiness of young Willow De Beers, who has left her North Carolina town to live with her newly found real mother and half brother in Palm Beach, Florida, as she plans her wedding to debonair attorney Thatcher Eaton.

After her mother dies, Dawn is forced to leave her school in Virginia and live with a different family, separated from her brother and sister. Her horror grows as she learns of the family's dark secrets.

Collected in a single volume are four of V.C. Andrews novels of orphan heroines.

Sixteen-year-old Laura Logan falls in love for the first time with her handsome new neighbor Robert Royce, but her happiness is shaken when her grandmother forbids her to see Robert, and her determination to meet Robert in secret only leads to tragedy.

Sandburg, early 1960s: In the dust and shadows of the attic, two friends as close as sister shared everything--fanciful stories, high school crushes, plans for the future, dreams to travel the world. For Karen, the attic is her escape from the reality of her stepfather's unwanted attentions. Together in the eaves of a house with its own murderous history, the best friends concoct a scheme that will put Karen's stepfather in his place. It wasn't supposed to turn deadly. But in the attic Karen shares one more secret with her best friend--a secret to take to the grave.

A haunting story of love and deceit, innocence and betrayal, and the suffocating power of parental love.