V. C. Andrews
Author
Series
Kindred volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
One night, with the sound of a young man's scream, high school senior Lorelei discovers that her stern but loving father, who adopted Lorelei and her sisters as infants, is no ordinary man. He has raised his beautiful girls for one purpose: to lure young men into their world of shadows. Like her sisters, Lorelei has been trained in the art of seduction and warned to never fall in love. But when she meets a handsome and charming classmate, she boldly...
2) Cloudburst
Author
Series
Storms volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sasha becomes increasingly attracted to shy classmate Duane while rehearsing for a school play only to watch him succumb to depression in the wake of parental neglect.
Author
Series
Storms volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Living on the streets with her destitute mother, Sasha Porter dreams of having a real house and family. But she never dreamed a devastating tragedy would bring her those very things. On a stormy night by a rain-spattered highway, a speeding car veers out of control, killing her mother and badly injuring Sasha. In the hospital, Sasha is whisked off to a private suite at the request of wealthy Mrs. Jordan March, a complete stranger who keeps watch by...
4) Dark angel
Author
Series
Casteel volume 2
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
Of all the folks on the mountain, the Casteel children are the lowest. Even the families that buy them think so. Heaven Leigh Casteel may be the prettiest, smartest girl in the backwoods, but her cruel father and weary stepmother work her like a mule. For the sake of her brother Tom and the other little ones, Heaven clings to the hope that someday she can show the world that they are worthy of love and respect. But when the children's stepmother can't...
Author
Series
(Virginia C.),Secrets volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Karen and Zipporah are best friends, sharing everything, including a clever scheme when Karen's stepfather begins molesting her, but things get out of hand when Karen disappears on the eve of her stepfathers murder.
Author
Series
Casteel volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Logan's bride, Heaven would savor now the love she had sought for so long. And free from her father's clutches, she would live again in her backwoods town, a respected teacher and 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...
7) Rain
Author
Series
Hudson family volume 1
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Author
Series
Forbidden volume 1
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
When she discovers that her sister Roxy, who was kicked out of the house by their father eight years earlier, has become a high-priced New York call girl, Emmie sets out to spy on her sister and learn more about her life.
Author
Series
Hudson family volume 2
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Torn from the embrace of her poor but loving family, Rain Arnold now lives surrounded by opulent riches but feels more like an outsider than ever before. Her heart's true passion -- the theater -- may prove to be her salvation, as she embarks on a journey to unmask a legacy of long-buried family secrets.
11) Willow
Author
Series
DeBeers volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2002, 2017
Language
English
Description
Stumbling upon some life-altering family secrets while reading her adoptive father's journal, Willow De Beers heads for Palm Beach to search for her birth family and stumbles upon the dark truth about her origins.
12) Roxy's story
Author
Series
Forbidden volume 2
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Roxy Wilcox has always been rebellious and defiant, unlike her sweet, obedient younger sister, Emmie. After sixteen years of trying to discipline Roxy, their father snaps and kicks her out of their Manhattan town house. Alone in the city, Roxy must find a way to make it big and show them all .
Author
Series
Cutler volume 2
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1991, 2013
Language
English
Description
Dawn falls in love with her music teacher, Michael. When he disappears, Dawn's grandmother is in charge again.
14) Secret whispers
Author
Series
Heavenstone volume 2
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Returning to the Kentucky mansion where memories of her mother and her domineering older sister, Cassie, haunt her, Semantha Heavenstone looks forward to a brighter future, but Cassie's ghostly hold on Semantha threatens to destroy her hope.
15) Broken wings
Author
Series
Broken wings volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Three girls from three different worlds with one thing in common--they were born to be wild!
16) Delia's crossing
Author
Series
Delia volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
When her parents are killed in a truck accident outside their poor Mexican village, Delia Yeberra is sent to live with her wealthy aunt in Palm Springs, California, but she soon discovers the dark underside of her glamorous new life as she become caught in a bitter battle whose resentment may be linked to a sinister secret, in the first volume in a trilogy.
17) Twilight's child
Author
Series
Cutler volume 3
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
18) Olivia
Author
Series
Logan family volume 5
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Author
Series
Christopher's diary volume 1
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen year old Kristin Masterwood is thrilled when her father's construction company is hired to inspect the Foxworth property for a prospective buyer. The once grand Southern mansion still sparks legends and half truths about the four innocent Dollanganger children, even all these decades later. Foxworth holds a special fascination for Kristin, who was too young when her mother died to learn much about her distant blood tie to the notorious family....
20) Scattered leaves
Author
Series
Early spring volume 2
Publisher
Pocket Star
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
After tragedy tears her family apart, Jordan March is shipped off by her domineering Grandmother Emma to live with Emma's long-forgotten sister. Shuttered in a rundown farmhouse, Aunt Frances is the strangest person Jordan has ever met. Why has Grandmother hidden away this fragile, harmless woman -- did Frances grow up much too fast, like Jordan did? In the shadows of the farmhouse, Jordan is about to unearth the shattering truth -- and the March...