Such Wonderful Children. Such a beautiful mother. Such a lovely house. Such endless terror!

It wasn't that she didn't love her children. She did. But there was a fortune at sake--a fortune that would assure their later happiness if she could keep the children a secret from her dying father.

So she and her mother hid her darlings away in an unused attic.

Just for a little while.

But the brutal days swelled into agonizing years. Now Cathy, Chris and the twins wait in their cramped and helpless world, stirred by adult dreams, adult desires, served a meager sustenance by an angry, superstitious grandmother who knows that the Devil works in dark and devious ways. Sometimes he sends children to do his work--children who--one by one--must be destroyed....

A link to Flowers in the Attic's chapter one excerpt coming soon.

Copyright (c) 1979 by Virginia Andrews. Published by Pocket Books of New York. Interior design by Cathy Carucci. 411 pages.

They Were Such Brave Children To Withstand Such Suffering. Such Clever Children To Escape Such Terror!

For Carrie, Chris and Cathy the attic was a dark horror that would not leave their minds, even while they built bright, promising new lives. Of course mother had to pretend they didn't exist.

And grandmother was convinced they had the devil in them.

But that wasn't their fault.

Was it?

Cathy knew what to do.

She now had the powers she had learned from her beautiful mother. She knew it in the way her brother still yearned for her, in the way her gardian touched her, in the way all men looked at her.

She knew it was time to put what she knew to the test. To show her mother and grandmother that the pain and terror of the attic could not be forgotten…
Show them.

Show them--once and for all.

A link to Petals on the Wind's chapter one excerpt coming soon.

Copyright (c) 1980 by V.C. Andrews. Published by Pocket Books of New York. 439 pages.

Out of the Ashes of Evil Chris and Cathy Made Such a Loving Home for Their Splendid Children…

Fourteen-year-old Jory was so handsome, so gentle. And Bart had such a dazzling imagination for a nine year old.

Then the lights came on in the abandoned house next door. And soon the Old Lady in Black was there watching their home with prying eyes, guarded by her strange old butler. Soon the shrouded woman had Bart over for cookies and ice cream and asked him to call her "Grandmother."

And soon Bart's transformation began…

A transformation that sprang from "the book of secrets" the gaunt old butler had given him…a transformation fed by the hint of terrible things about his mother and father…a transformation that led him into shocking acts of violence self-destruction and perversity.

And now while this little boy trembles on the edge of madness, his anguished parents, his helpless brother, an obsessed old woman and the vengeful, powerful butler await the climax to a horror that flowered in an attic long ago, a horror whose thorns are still wet with blood, still tipped with fire…

A link to If There Be Thorns's chapter one excerpt coming soon.

Copyright (c) 1981 by Virginia Andrews. Published by Pocket Books of New York. 374 pages.

The Final, Haunting Novel In The Extraordinary Story That Has Enthralled Millions!

The horror began with Flowers in the Attic, the terrifying tale of four innocent children locked away from the world by a cruel mother.

The shocking fury continued with Petals on the Wind and If There Be Thorns. Now V.C. Andrews has created the last dark chapter in the strange, chilling tale of passion and peril that has captvated millions of readers around the world.

Cathy and Chris, entwined with the evil that haunts their children, living with the fearful spectre of Foxworth Hall, are awaiting the final, shuddering climax--prisoners of a past they cannot escape.

A link to Seeds of Yesterday's chapter one excerpt coming soon.

Copyright (c) 1984 by Vanda Productions, Ltd. Published by Pocket Books of New York. 408 pages.

At last! The story of how it all began! Before the terror of Flowers in the Attic, evil was spawned in a…

Garden of Shadows

Olivia dreamed of a sun-filled love, a happy life. then she entered Foxworth Hall…

V.C. Andrews' thirlling new novel spins a tale of dreadful secrets and dark, forbidden passions--of the time before Flowers in the Attic began. Long before terror flowered in the attic, thin, spinsterish Olivia came to Virginia as Malcolm Foxworth's bride. At last, with her tall handsome husband, she would find the joy she had waited for, longed for. But in the glomy mansion filled with hidden rooms and festering desires, a stain of jealous obsession begins to spread…an evil that will threaten her children, two lovely boys and one very special, beautiful girl. For within one innocent child, a shocking secret lives…a secret that will taint the proud Foxworth name, and haunt all their lives forever!

A link to Garden of Shadows' chapter one excerpt coming soon.

Copyright (c) 1987 by Vanda Productions, Ltd. Published by Pocket Books of New York. Cover artwork copyright (c) 1987 Steve Huston. 376 pages.