Andrews, V. C

Heaven, her brother Tom, and the younger children of the Casteel family cling to their pride despite being the poorest family in the hills. When their stepmother leaves, their father's scheme threatens to destroy Heaven and the other children forever.

Chris and Cathy Dollanganger are locked into the attic of their grandmother's home after the death of their father.

Cathy and Chris, entwined with the evil that haunts their children, live with the fearful spectre of Foxworth Hall and find they are prisoners of a past they cannot escape.

Cathy discovers that she has the power to revenge those childhood years locked in an attic with her brothers and sister.

Chris and Cathy, still plagued by past horrors, try to raise Jory and Bart as they are watched by a mysterious Lady in Black next door.

Brooke, Crystal, Raven, and Butterfly know they can't take any more abuse from their foster parents, so the girls develop a plan to run away and start their lives over again in California. Along the way the girls learn they can't run from their past, because it will always be chasing them.

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.

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.