Dawn - Secrets of the Morning - Twilight's Child
Midnight Whispers - Darkest Hour
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IN HER FINE NEW VIRGINIA SCHOOL, DAWN LONGCHAMP FEELS HAPPY AND SAFE. BUT NOTHING IS WHAT IT SEEMS… Now Dawn and her older brother Jimmy have a chance for a decent, respectable life, and Dawn's secret, precious hope to study singing can come true. Philip Cutler, the handsomest boy in school, sets Dawn's heart on fire. She is deeply devoted to her brooding brother; but with Philip, she imagines a lovely dream of romance… Then Dawn's mother suddenly dies, and her entire world begins to crumble. After a terrible new shock, she is thrust into a different family and an evil web of unspoken sins. Her sweet innocence lost, humliated and scorned, Dawn is desperate to find Jimmy again…and strip away the wicked lies that will change all their lives forever! A link to Dawn's chapter one excerpt coming soon. Copyright (c) 1990 by the Virginia C. Andrews Trust. Published by Pocket Books of New York. Cover illustration by Richard Newton. Cover design by Myles Sprinzen. 407 pages. |
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SHADOWED BY HER TORTURED PAST, DAWN HAS A BRIGHT NEW LIFE OF GLIMMERING HOPES… Dawn can hardly believe she's a student at one of New York ity's best music schools. Now her most precious wish, to become a singer, can come true. But Dawn still dreams about Jimmy, her strong, intense boyfriend, and the love and anguished secrets they share. Then Michael Sutton arrives, a new teacher at the school, a singing star and the most wonderful-looking man Dawn has ever seen. Together they create a world of feeling Dawn has never known. In his embrace Dawn awakens to distrubing, unfamiliar desires, and Michael's promises offer a vision of music and romance forever…until he disappears. Dazed by his cruelty, alone with the bitter fruit of his betrayal, Dawn becomes, once again, a victim of her grandmother's twisted schemes. Desolate, she clings to the tender hope that Jimmy will return and renew with her their deepes hearts' dream… A link to Secrets of the Morning's chapter one excerpt coming soon. Copyright (c) 1991 by Virginia C. Andrews Trust. Published by Pocket Books of New York. Cover art by Richard Newton. 405 pages. |
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AS MRS. JAMES GARY LONGCHAMP, DAWN IS BLISSFULLY HAPPY. BUT A LEGACY OF DECEIT AND BETRAYAL STILL HAUNTS HER… At last, Dawn can create a haven of warmth and love for her beautiful baby girl, Christie, and her darling Jimmy. Dawn is a huge success as the new owner of the Cutler's Cove hotelánd soon she and Jimm will be blessed with a child of their own. Yet Dawn cannot quell her forebodings of evil. She can sense Grandmother Cutler's presence everywhere…can feel her bitter hatred as if the old lady plotted her vengeance from the grave. When Dawn discovers that her brother, Philip, still clings to his mad, shameful passion for her, she is heartstricken. Her spiteful, jealous sister, Clara, is far easier to ignore…until the day Clara's childish rage explodes into violence, destroying Dawn's most cherished, precious dream. Then Christie's father, debonair singing star Michael Sutton, returns. Now, as the hearaches and scandals of the past threaten to engulf her, Dawn must fight for her steadfast Jimmy…for only with Jimmy's love can she find the rainbow at the end of the storm. A link to Twilight's Child's chapter one excerpt coming soon. Copyright (c) 1992 by Virginia C. Andrews Trust. Published by Pocket Books of New York. Cover design by Myles Sprinzen. Stepback illustration by Richard Newton. 410 pages. |
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HAPPY AND INNOCENT, DAWN'S DAUGHTER CHRISTIE HAS GROWN UP IN THE SAFEST, MOST LOVING OF HOMES… Yet Christie can't help feeling as if a dark cloud hovers over Cutler's Cove…a cloud whose origins lie in her family's troubled history, and the many questions no one, not even Dawn, will answer. Only one person can always chase away her blues: Gavin, Daddy Jimmy's young and handsome stpbrother. Then, in one harsh night, Christie's world is changed forever. She is shocked to discover her Uncle Philip's unbrotherly love for her mother…but even worse is the way he now looks at Christie, his eyes bright with tortured passion. Fleeing to New York City, she finds her real father…a pathetic, helpless has-been. Desperate and heartbroken, she turns to Gavin, who travels with her to The Meadows, the plantation where Christie was born. In Gavin's arms, in the first, tender moments of true love, Christie finds a refuge from her painful memories. But The Meadows is blighted by its own dark secrets--and all too soon Christie is torn from Gavein's embrace. Now as black storms of evil gather around her, Christie must struggle to break the cruel bonds of the past…to defy the curse that has haunted Cutler's Cove for generations… A link to Midnight Whispers's chapter one excerpt coming soon. Copyright (c) 1992 by Virginia C. Andrews Trust. Published by Pocket Books of New York. Cover design by Myles Sprinzen. 440 pages. |
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At last! The spellbinding beginning to the bestselling Cutler series! Just before the Dawn comes the… Darkest Hour GROWING UP ON THE THRIVING PLANTATION CALLED THE MEADOWS, LILLIAN BOOTH CHERISHES THE BRIGHTEST, HAPPIEST DREAMS… Lillian's world is full of grand parties, of sunshine and promises, as thrilling as the fairy tales Mama spins for her and her little sister, Eugenia. No one, not even her cold, stern Papa and her Bible-spouting sister Emily, can crust her spririts--until the day Emily reveals the shatering secret of Lillian's birth, a secret Mama sadly cannot deny. Still Lillian refuses to believe Emil's hateful claim that she is evil, a curse…even when sweet, gentle Eugenia loses her fragile hold on life, and Mama retreats tfurther into her fantasies. But when tragedy befalls her best friend, the one boy whose tender heart mirrors her own, Lillian comes to believe Emily's grim words. Meekly, she endures her penance, finding a strange solace in the endless repetition of prayers in a room stripped of all comforts. Lillian's heart is torn anew when, in a drunken haze, Papa subjects her to the most brutal degradation. Then Papa loses The Meadows in a card game, and Lillian is faced with a new and terrifying prospect. Arrogant, handsome playboy Bill Cutler will return the plantation--if Lilian will marry him! Now Lillian must leave her girlhood home behind, and make a bold new beginning as the mistress of a hotel called Cutler's Cove… A link to Darkest Hour's chapter one excerpt coming soon. Copyright (c) 1993 by Virginia C. Andrews Trust. Published by Pocket Books of New York. 394 pages. |