V. C Andrews
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021
Description
After escaping the trauma of the Umbrella Lady's home, thirteen-year-old Saffron Faith Anders is determined to find the father who abandoned her all those years ago. But when she finds him in a nearby town, Saffron is shocked to discover that he has married a woman he clearly had been involved with before her mother's death. Worse, her father insists Saffron pretend to be his niece so he can continue to con his new wife's family. Desperate for her...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2023
Description
Caroline Brady is the daughter of a very conservative TSA agent and former military brat, Morgan Brady. Her mother, Linsey Brady, is a descendent of the Sutherland real estate family. Their organised, suburban life in Colonie, New York is rigorously regulated and leaves little room for deviation from the norm. When Linsey, Morgan, and Caroline attend the wake of their neighbour Mr. Gleeson, they meet his charming daughter Natalie 'Nattie' Gleeson,...
Author
Series
(Virginia C.).Dollanganger volume 4
Publisher
Thorpe
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Many years have passed for the Dollanganger family. Jory has grown up to marry his childhood sweetheart, Melodie, and both have become successful dancers. Corinne has bequeathed Bart the rebuilt Foxworth Hall, which he plans to reopen and make the grandest home in Virginia. Cathy and Chris arrive to live once again, forty years later, in the place where they were hidden so long ago. But the past is not easily left behind, especially when Uncle Joel...
6) Little Paula
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2023
Description
Faith Eden's brief foray into motherhood is marked by tragedy. Distraught that her baby was ripped away from her, she is determined to get little Paula back from the wealthy family who adopted her. Her brother, Trevor, is also anxious to get the baby back and will do anything necessary to do so. But when the dark truth comes to light, this twisted family will stop at nothing to keep outsiders out and secrets in - no matter the cost.
7) Dark angel
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Series
Description
In her grandmother's fine, rich Boston house, Heaven Leigh Casteel dreams of a wonderful new life of new friends, the best schools, beautiful clothes, and - most importantly - love. The pearls of culture, wisdom, and breeding will now be hers. Soon she will make the Casteel name respectable, find her brothers and sisters, and have a family again. But even in the world of the wealthy, there are strange forebodings, and secrets best forgotten. And as...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015
Description
The horrors that we all know from 'Flowers in the Attic' have become the stuff of local legend in Charlottesville, VA. Many are the tales told of Foxworth Hall, which has lain dormant for years, ever since it burned to the ground supposedly at the hands of Corrine, the high-strung mother of four children who were said to have been incarcerated in the attic of the mansion, the youngest boy deliberately poisoned with arsenic. Kristin Masterwood is the...
9) Broken glass
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Haylee and Kaylee Fitzgerald are twin sisters who have been forced to be identical in every way by their domineering mother. She insists they wear the same clothes, eat the same food, get the same grades, and have all the same friends. But both are growing weary of her obsession with their similarities, so when they finally attend high school, they find little ways to highlight their independence. The transition isn't as easy as expected, however,...
10) Sage's eyes
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Sixteen-year-old Sage is a lonely child. Her adoptive parents watch her obsessively, as if studying her for warning signs of something. And maybe they're right to - even she can't make sense of the strange things she sees and hears. She possesses knowledge that other teenagers don't, that her parents and teachers - no adult - could possibly have. So when Sage finally makes a friend who understands her alarming gift, he becomes her confidant, a precarious...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorpe
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Out of the ashes of evil, Chris and Cathy have made a loving home for their children. Fourteen-year-old Jory is handsome and gentle, and nine-year-old Bart has a dazzling imagination. Then the lights come on in the abandoned house next door. The old lady in black is there, watching their home with prying eyes, guarded by her strange old butler. Soon she has Bart over for cookies and ice-cream, and asks him to call her 'Grandmother'. And Bart's dark...
Author
Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024
Description
After the tragic death of her mother and a long period of isolation under the thumb of a cruel grandfather, young Caroline Bryer has little to hope for in her life in the foreboding Southerland mansion. Her only companion, her enigmatic cousin, Simon, may be a wolf in sheep's clothing and is not to be trusted. But when Caroline's estranged father suddenly resurfaces with news of a new wife and stepchildren in Hawaii that she'll finally be allowed...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Fern and her mother have lived as servants in Wyndemere House, the old Gothic mansion of the Davenport family, for as long as she can remember. And her friendship with Dr Davenport's son Ryder was never a problem - until they came of age. As cruel forces try to come between Fern and Ryder, what really holds the biggest threat to their happiness is the past, and the truths it threatens them with.
14) Whitefern
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster UK Ltd
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Audrina remembers a better time, when her husband, Arden, was a young man with a heart filled with devotion for her. He didn't used to be this ambitious, expansive, this cruel. But then, the death of Audrina's father changed a great many things. When the reading of her father's will reveals that Audrina herself will control 51% percent of the family brokerage - the halls of Whitefern again don't feel safe. Arden's protestations become frantic, nearly...
15) Out of the attic
Author
Series
Dollanganger volume 10
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Picking up where 'Beneath the Attic' left off, 'Out of the Attic' goes back two generations before Corrine Foxworth locked her children in the attic. See how the twisted, beloved Dollanganger legend came to be.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024
Description
With her mother deceased and her father remarried, Caroline is forced to live with her domineering grandfather. But having endured so much loss and cruelty in her young life, she is determined to not let her suffering to have been in vain. Soon, Caroline embarks on a campaign to reclaim her own power and win over the most influential person in her family. She will stop at nothing to build the life - and the independence - she so desperately dreams...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017
Description
As identical twins, Haylee and Kaylee Fitzgerald have always done things in exactly the same way. Under their mother's guidance their every outfit, every meal, and every thought was identical. But now things are different. With Kaylee back at home after her sister's betrayal, her life has been turned inside out. Both her mother and Haylee are away and Kaylee's alone and more lost than ever. Her father suggests going to a new school where she can have...
18) Falling stars
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Four talented girls from vastly different pasts share a dream of stardom. The four meet at the prestigious Senetsky School of the Performing Arts - housed in an ornate New York mansion - and become instant friends as they take off on a dazzling whirlwind of intense classes, theatre outings and parties.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Two generations before Corinne Foxworth locked her children in an attic, her grandmother, a gorgeous young girl named Corrine Dixon, is swept away by the charms of rich, sophisticated and handsome Garland Foxworth. After discovering that she's pregnant, Garland does what appears to be the honourable thing and marries her in a huge ceremony on the luxurious Foxworth Hall grounds. Both families fervently overlook the pregnancy, happy for a suitable...