"A new novel from V.C. Andrews, the legendary author of Flowers in the Attic--now a hit Lifetime TV movie!"-- 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...

Taylor, a thirteen-year-old abused and bullied boy, discovers and befriends Jim, a criminal chained inside an abandoned warehouse. At first, Taylor, an aspiring organic gardener, takes care of Jim, but after a violent betrayal Taylor begins abusing his captive in order to find out where Jim has hidden stolen money. Taylor has big dreams of using the money to buy an organic farm with his friend, Nora, thus escaping his abusive homelife. Meanwhile,...

Social worker Alex raises the child she kidnapped from an abusive family and struggles to distance herself from a painful past that returns in nightmarish ways when a jealous adversary discovers her true identity.

"A young girl's escape from a life of horrific abuse ... and the killer from her past that continues to haunt her ... Elenore Griffin is finally free of the abuse she's suffered most all her young life. But some demons never die, and the road to freedom is laced with a new kind of pain. To break free, Elenore must confront her troubled past head-on. But deep beneath the trauma lies something dark and dangerous. With every buried memory she unearths,...

Ashley is a young single mum raising her daughter, Eden, and working hard to do the very best job she can - until one night she can't find a babysitter and makes the decision to leave Eden home alone for a couple of hours, asleep inside a wardrobe. It is an action that begins a terrible downward spiral for both of them. When Eden arrives at experienced foster carer Louise Allen's home, she has entered the care system because her mother is in prison....

Protected by horror movies -- especially the ones where the masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them, Jade Daniels, an angry, half-Indian outcast, pulls us into her dark mind when blood actually starts to spill into the waters of Indian lake.--

"After a lifetime of surviving the most horrific abuse imaginable, Eleanor Griffin finds herself slipping deeper into her own personal Hell, until the lines of reality begin to blur, and Elle, her alternate personality, emerges. And Elle is out for blood. Fueled by murder, rage, and vengeance, Elle cuts a swath through the men responsible for her torment. But she doesn't stop there. For there are far too many monsters walking the earth, and Elle intends...

Recovering a long-suppressed ability to feel the emotions of others, a 40-year-old cattle rancher falls in love with a single mother whose son is struggling with trauma from experiences with an abusive father.

Fed up with her abusive family situation, lack of school prospects and the "boys' law" in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her style, drops out of school and starts stealing to be accepted into the gang. When her home situation becomes unbearable, Marieme seeks solace in an older man who promises her money and protection. Realizing this sort of lifestyle will never...

"Provides basic consumer health information about physical, sexual, and emotional abuse of children and adolescents, along with facts about prevention and intervention strategies. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and directory of resources"--