Andrews, V. C

After Christie Longchamp's parents die in a fire, she and her brother go to live with her uncle where more trouble begins.

Pearl Andreas dreams of going to college and becoming a doctor, but with mounting family problems and discovering shocking truths of her heritage, her dreams seem to be slipping away from her.

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.

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.

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.

Lillian's world is full of happy dreams growing up on the plantation until her father looses it in a card game, then Lillian faces a terrifying prospect. Handsome playboy Bill Cutler will return the plantation if Lillian will marry him.

Robin, Teal, and Phoebe, three young women sentenced to live at a special school for incorrigible teens, tell the stories of where they went wrong.

Willow De Beers leaves her North Carolina college town and sets out in search of her birth family amid the glamour of Palm Beach, where she falls head over heels for a young lawyer, but soon the truth about her family threatens her happiness and pushes her to the brink of insanity.

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.

Four talented girls try to overcome their difficult pasts to achieve stardoom while attending the prestigious Senetsky School of the Performing Arts.