He wants to reenact the Dollanger incarceration by pretending to be Chris to Kristin’s Cathy and have sex with her while role-playing. However, her Dollanger passion seems harmless compared to her boyfriend Kane Hill’s preoccupation with the tragic family. Obsessed with the then teenage diarist, Kristin wonders if her school peers are right that she inherited the family insanity taint especially with as her fixated fascination growing with every page. She read his account of being locked away in the attic for years with his three younger siblings until one died and the survivors eventually escaped (see Christopher’s Diary: Secrets of Foxworth). A fourth cousin on her late mother’s side to the lunatic Dollanger family who lived in the mansion, Kristin found the diary of oldest child Christopher. And no family name can protect her from the twisted roots of the Dollanganger family tree.In Charlottesville, construction company owner Burt Masterwood’s teenage daughter Kristin accompanied him to his latest job inspecting twice burned down Foxworth Hall. Caught between mastering the game to escape it and falling prey to its allure, she needs to learn fast-for Malcolm Foxworth has cast his eye in her direction. While he is free to leave the house, Marlena is left to avoid lecherous tutors and the secretary-to-wife track expected of a woman. But in America, you can either make friends or make profit, and Yvon suddenly seems much more interested in the latter. Trapped in a mansion with as many secrets as rooms, Marlena yearns for escape. Sent to Richmond, Virginia, they arrive at the home of two aunts they’ve never met before, who tell them that their true last name is Dawson, that their father had fled the family years back-and that now the family is calling in the debt.

When a car crash kills their parents, Marlena and Yvon lose not only France, but also their identity. She loved her family she just didn’t know what her family actually was. She had a talented artist for a father, a doting mother, and a brother she couldn’t be closer to. In this third book of a new related trilogy, witness the birth of the Dollanganger curse as Corrine Foxworth’s children learn that family is but destiny by another, crueler name.Īs a young girl in France, Marlena Hunter’s life was a fairy tale. Forbidden passions have been the hallmark of the Dollanganger clan since Flowers in the Attic debuted more than forty years ago.

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