Andrews, V. C

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.

The four Dollanganger children move to their grandparents house with their mother. But things are not as they seem. Their mother then locks them in an abandoned wing of the large house and tells them it's only for a few days.

April Taylor, her parents dead, estranged from her older sister, and alone after the death of the uncle with whom she had been living, is taken in by a kind elderly woman and her deaf granddaughter, and through their friendship and love learns to trust herself--a quality that comes in handy when danger appears on the doorstep.

Grace Houston hopes for a chance to start over when she and her mother move to ritzy Palm Beach, Florida after her father's death, but her mother's obsession with fitting in and being accepted by high society soon cause Grace more problems than she can handle.

Star has gotten accustomed to hiding the pain she feels over the broken promises of her drunken mother and deadbeat father, but the death of her boyfriend puts her over the edge and lands her in a therapy group with three other girls who have reason to hate their parents.