One of the most popular storytellers of all time, V.C. Andrews
(Flowers in the Attic, My Sweet Audrina) continues an engrossing
saga of psychological suspense with this second book of the Landry
Family series--soon to be a Lifetime movie! Fate has whisked Ruby away
from a simple life in the Louisiana Bayou but her new riches bring more
treachery than happiness in this unputdownable and darkly evocative
novel.
Even a year removed from living in the bayou, Ruby still wonders at the
splendor of her family's New Orleans mansion. She rejoices in the love
of the father she had never known, even as true happiness remains as
elusive as swamp mist. Her stepmother sneers at her backwater
upbringing, and while discovering she has a twin sister should be a
cause for joy, Gisselle has greeted Ruby with nothing but a bitter
heart.
When Ruby's father chooses an idyllic boarding school for his daughters'
senior years, a fresh start with Gisselle seems possible. But Ruby's
kind isn't welcome at Greenwood, and the legendarily strict headmistress
plots with her stepmother to make life miserable. Worse, with her twin
on a mission to break every school rule, Ruby is left to suffer the
humiliating punishments. So when a terrible tragedy leaves Ruby alone in
a world that never really wanted her, only her Cajun strength can give
her daring escape plan any hope of success. The weather on the bayou was
nothing compared to the storm about to tear through her family.
