Edited by Caro1970 at 10-09-2023 10:39
The discovery of Christopher’s diary in the ruins ofFoxworth Hall brings new secrets of the Dollanganger family to light in thisriveting novel from V.C. Andrews, the author of Flowers in the Attic and Petalson the Wind, both major Lifetime TV events. Christopher Dollanganger was fourteen when he and hisyounger siblings—Cathy and the twins, Cory and Carrie—were locked away in theattic of Foxworth Hall, prisoners of their mother’s greedy inheritance scheme.For three long years he kept hope alive for the sake of the others. But theshocking truth about how their ordeal affected him was always kept hidden—untilnow. Seventeen-year-old Kristin Masterwood is thrilled when herfather’s construction company is hired to inspect the Foxworth property for aprospective buyer. The once grand Southern mansion still sparks legends andhalf-truths about the four innocent Dollanganger children, even all thesedecades later. Foxworth holds a special fascination for Kristin, who was tooyoung when her mother died to learn much about her distant blood tie to thenotorious family. Accompanying her dad to the “forbidden territory,” they finda leather-bound book, its yellowed pages filled with the neat script ofChristopher Dollanganger himself. Her father grows increasingly uneasy abouther reading it, but as she devours the teen’s story page by page, hisshattering account of temptation, heartache, courage, and betrayal overtakesKristin’s every thought. And soon her obsession with the doomed boy crosses adangerous line…
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