Seventeen-year-old Lorelei Patio is the adopted daughter of two-hundred-year-old vampire Sergio Patio. She never realized why her family has had to move so often or why she is not permitted to get too friendly with other young people. In fact, except for one shocking moment that seemed more like a dream, Lorelei never fully realized who and what her father was nor what her sisters were brought up to do for him. But one day, that all changed. Sergio's...

Of all the folks in the mountain shacks, the Casteels are the lowest - the scum of the hills. Heaven Leigh Casteel is the prettiest, smartest girl in the backwoods, despite her ragged clothes and dirty face ... despite a father meaner than ten vipers ... despite her weary stepmother, who works her like a mule. For her brother Tom and the little ones, Heaven clings to her pride and her hopes. Someday they'll get away and show the world that they are...

After Dawn's mother dies, she is thrust into a new family and an evil web of unspoken sins. She tries to find her brother and strip away the lies.

Since her mother was institutionalized, sixteen-year-old Celeste has been in and out of orphanages. Celeste is overjoyed when Wade and Ami Emerson adopt her. But when she discovers Ami's real reason for adopting her - a reason that involves a sexual tryst with Ami's father-in-law - Celeste is terrified.

In the sequel to "Dawn," Dawn pursues a singing career at a prestigious New York City music school, all the while dreaming of her boyfriend Jimmy, and the anguished secrets they share, until a new teacher, Michael Sutton, arrives to take Jimmy's place inher desires.

The phenomenal Cutler series from New York Times bestselling author V.C. Andrews has held readers spellbound. Now comes the fourth and final novel in the magnificent Cutler family saga--the prequel to Dawn. Darkest Hour takes readers back to the story of Dawn's grandmother ... to a girl named Lillian, and a thriving plantation called The Meadows.

Finally married to Jimmy and reunited with her daughter, Dawn is convinced she has everything she needs, but her brother's strange behavior, her mother's selfishness, and an unspeakable tragedy threaten her happiness.