Dollenganger 01 Flowers In the Attic
by V. C. Andrews
It wasn't that she
didn't love her children. She did. But there was a fortune at stake--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....
didn't love her children. She did. But there was a fortune at stake--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....