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The haunting young adult gothic romance classic that launched Virginia Andrews’ incredible best-selling career.Up in the attic, four secrets are hidden. Four blonde, beautiful, innocent little secrets, struggling to stay alive…Chris, Cathy, Cory and Carrie have perfect lives – until a tragic accident changes everything. Now they must wait, hidden from view in their grandparents’ attic, as their mother tries to figure out what to do next. But as days turn into weeks and weeks into months, the siblings endure unspeakable horrors and face the terrifying realisation that they might not be let out of the attic after all.Virginia Andrews is a publishing phenomenon, with over 100 million books in print. Still as terrifying now as it was when it first appeared, Flowers in the Attic is a gripping story of a family’s greed, betrayal and heartbreak.

The new novel from the author of Flowers in the Attic and Petals on the Wind- both now major Lifetime movie events. A young boy suffers amnesia from a trauma he suffered in what feels like it must have been another life. He's adopted into a wealthy family - but what will happen when he learns the truth about his past?

The final, heartbreaking story in the compelling saga that began with ‘Flowers in the Attic’, repackaged for a new generation of fans.Cathy and Chris, haunted by the tragedies and sins of the past, return at last to Foxworth Hall where they were hidden so long ago. Despite every endeavour, they find that they are prisoners of a past they cannot escape, and with a terrifying certainty, the past comes back to prey upon them once more…

A stand-alone mystery thriller from the bestselling author of Flowers in the Attic.MY SWEET AUDRINAThe house in the wood was picturesque and charming. The family who lived there were happy and affluent. So what was the secret of the room – empty of everything but the rocking chair?Audrina wanted to be as good as her sister. Audrina knew her parents could not love her as they loved her sister. Her sister was perfect, much loved – and dead.But how did she die? Who was Audrina and who did she have to become? What was the secret that everyone knew? Everyone except sweet Audrina…The haunting story of love and deceit, innocence and betrayal, and terrible family secrets.

From the bestselling author of ‘Flowers in the Attic’ comes the first book in the series centred around the Casteel family and its dark and mysterious past.Repackaged to attract a new generation of Andrews’ fansHER NAME WAS HEAVEN, HER LIFE WAS ANYTHING BUTHeaven’s mother Angel had died in childbirth, and from that moment her father turned against her. Her only allies, it seemed, were her four half-brothers and sisters.When their father, poor and desperate, sold them to strangers, Heaven was left alone and friendless. Her only hope was to reunite her family. But how?So begins the heartbreaking, magical story of the Casteel family, continued in ‘Dark Angel’, ‘Fallen Hearts’, ‘Gates of Paradise’ and ‘Web of Dreams’.

Second in the Casteel family saga series set in Virginia and Boston. As Heaven moves away from home she is determined to leave her traumatic past behind. But she is met with more hidden secrets and mysteries…AT LAST, HEAVEN WOULD FIND THE HAPPINESS SHE LONGED FOR…FREE FROM THE SCORN AND CONTEMPT OF HER PASTIn her wealthy grandmother’s house, Heaven dreamed of a wonderful new life – of new friends, the best schools, beautiful clothes and, most important, love. Soon she would make her family-name respectable, find her brothers and sisters, and have a family once again.But even in the world of the rich there were strange forebodings, secrets best forgotten. And as Heaven reached out for love, she was caught up in a sinister web of cruel deceits and hidden passions…

The prequel to the compelling saga that began with ‘Flowers in the Attic’, repackaged for a new generation of fans.THEIR DARKEST SECRETS WOULD TURN TO SHAME AND HAUNT THEIR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN.Olivia Winfield's hopes blossomed when the dashing Malcolm Foxworth asked her to marry him. But her hopes withered like flowers in the scorching sun when his true nature was revealed. Foxworth Hall, the beautiful home that should have given them so much happiness, became like a prison to her, with Malcolm the cruellest of jailers.Suddenly, unexpectedly, the hand of friendship was offered to Olivia when Alicia, her father-in-law's new young bride, came to Foxworth Hall. The two women were unlikely companions, but soon the laughter of their youth filled the gloomy place. Yet over them both loomed the shadow of Malcolm, whose dark desires were to sow the seeds of a shocking secret that would lead in time to a darkened, locked attic room…

Returning home to Virginia and about to marry her first love, Heaven finally feels she can get on with her life. Until her past yet again returns to haunt her…The third in the hugely successful Casteel family saga series.PROUD AND BEAUTIFUL, HEAVEN CAME BACK TO THE HILLS – TO RISE AT LAST ABOVE HER FAMILY’S SHAME!As Logan’s bride, she would savour now the love she had sought for so long. Free from her father’s clutches, she would live again in her backwoods town, a respected teacher and a cherished wife.But after a wedding trip to Boston’s Farthinggale Manor and a lavish, elegant party, Heaven and Logan are persuaded to stay…lured by Tony Tatterton’s guile to live amidst the Tatterton wealth and privilege. Then the ghosts of Heaven’s past rise up once more, writhing around her fragile happiness…threatening her precious love with scandal and jealousy, sinister passions and dangerous dreams.

The Casteel family saga continues for Heaven’s daughter Annie. When her parents are tragically killed in a car accident Annie is taken to Farthinggale Manor, a place she has always dreamt of visiting. But on her arrival Annie quickly realizes it is a cold and dark place, still hiding many family secrets.SEASON OF DARKNESSHeaven’s daughter Annie, a sweet and loving young woman,has known the sort of happy home that always seemed out of her mother’s reach. But a terrible, tragic car accident changes all that.When her mysterious ‘great-grandfather’ Tony Tatterton takes her to Farthinggale Manor, he promises to look after all her needs. But Annie pines for her lost family, most especially for Luke, her half-brother, the loving confidant of her childhood. Soon she becomes lost in the despair of the decaying mansion.Then Annie discovers the secret cottage owned by Tony’sbrother Troy, and the mystery deepens…

The Casteel family saga concludes with this fifth and final book as Annie and Luke return to Farthinggale Manor to finally put her past behind her. But the Manor still holds one final key to the mysteries surrounding her family.GHOSTS FROM THE SHADOWS OF THE PASTOn their return to Farthinggale Manor, the mystery-shrouded luxury home of the Tatterton family, Annie and Luke believe that they will be putting the past finally to rest, and bringing peace to the spirit of Annie’s mother, Heaven.But Annie discovers a diary at Farthinggale. There she finds the story of her grandmother, Leigh, and of her great-grandparents. Born into the privileged life of Boston’s wealthy classes, Leigh hopes for happiness. Her dreams are shattered, however, when her parents divorce, and her mother Jillian marries Tony Tatterton. The awful shadow cast by the Tatterton family over the lives of the next three generations begins to spread…

The best-selling young adult series that began with Flowers in the Attic continues in the harrowing third book of the Dollanganger Saga…They thought they had left the attic far behind,But the darkness stalks them, ready to claim the next generation…Chris and Cathy have moved out of the shadow of the attic that brought them so much torment, living a new, happy life with their children and their love. Yet the past is not done with them yet. A mysterious journal reveals hidden secrets and opens old wounds, until the anger and hatred that defined their childhood once again dominates their lives.Only forgiveness can truly set them free – but some acts are beyond redemption.Haunting and evocative, If There Be Thorns is the third book in the best-selling Dollanganger saga, still as gripping and terrifying today as it was when it first appeared.

The bestselling phenomenon of the Dollanganger family saga continues as the children who escaped the attic build new lives, haunted by their tragic past.Their captivity in their grandparents’ attic is finally over.But revenge is a torment they cannot escape…The Dollanganger children are trying to rebuild their lives after suffocating for so long in the terrifying darkness of the attic. The siblings must put aside their past and learn to love and dream again, in order to find their rightful place in the world.Still, dreams of happiness and success are easily crowded out by thoughts of vengeance. Cathy is determined to make those responsible for destroying their childhood pay, from the grandmother who tormented them to the mother who abandoned them.Disturbing, lavishly written gothic romance at its finest, Petals on the Wind is the second book in the best-selling Dollanganger saga, still as engrossing today as it was when it first appeared.

The second book in the thrilling, brand new trilogy that continues the saga begun in Flowers in the Attic...

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 Aurdina’s father changed a great many things.When the reading of her father’s will reveals that Audrina herself will control fifty-one percent of the family brokerage—the halls of Whitefern again don’t feel safe. Arden’s protestations become frantic, nearly violent. And while Audrina didn’t anticipate running the family business, she’s curious to do so. And she can’t help but wonder what had made her father change his will at the last minute? What did he know about Arden that she didn’t?Trapped in the middle of it all: her fragile, simple sister—the beautiful, trusting Sylvia. Audrina promised her father she’d watch over the young woman. But after years of relative quiet, the dark days of Whitefern may have returned…

A thrilling new novel from the bestselling author of Flowers in the Attic

A darkly thrilling new novel from bestselling author Virginia Andrews

From New York Times bestselling author and literary phenomenon Virginia Andrews comes a shivery gothic tale of romance, class divisions, and the secrets that haunt families for generations.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.For family intrigue and psychological chills, there is no author quite like Virginia Andrews.

After her parents are killed in a road accident, Delia Yebarra's life is turned upside-down. At fifteen, she leaves the rural Mexican village where she grew up to embark on a new life in America. Arriving at her wealthy Aunt Isabella's huge estate in Palm Springs, California, should be a dream come true for a simple country girl like Delia - so why does it feel like a nightmare? Her aunt refuses to acknowledge Delia's heritage, relegating her to the servants' quarters with a lecherous language tutor who is intent on exploiting the beautiful young foreigner. Her cousin Edward is kind, but cousin Sophia is cruel, manipulative and resentful of Delia's sultry Latin looks. And just when Delia tries to embrace the life of an all-American girl, a heartbreaking chain of events sends her spiralling back to a Mexico she hardly recognises . . .

Torn between two worlds - and two loves - will Delia be able to follow her heart? Enticed by the glamour and privilege of life in Palm Springs, California, Delia Yebarra is convinced by her cousin Edward to leave her Mexican village and begin a new life in America. But in a world where ruthless ambition and cruel lies are the norm, will Delia be able to handle the pressures of this high-powered lifestyle? As Delia quickly gains a large group of friends and admirers at her exclusive private high school, her spiteful cousin Sophia becomes jealous of her beauty and popularity. Seething with envy, she sets out to destroy Delia by spreading malicious rumours. And when tragedy strikes back in Mexico as well, will Delia find herself caught between her old and new lives with no where to call home?