Petals on the Wind - Dollanganger

Informationen zum Autor One of the most popular authors of all time, V.C. Andrews® has been a bestselling phenomenon since the publication of  Flowers in the Attic , first in the renowned Dollanganger family series, which includes  Petals on the Wind ,  If There Be Thorns ,  Seeds of Yesterday , and  Garden of Shadows . The family saga continues with  Christopher’s Diary: Secrets of Foxworth ,  Christopher’s Diary: Echoes of Dollanganger , and  Secret Brother , as well as  Beneath the Attic ,  Out of the Attic , and  Shadows of Foxworth  as part of the fortieth anniversary celebration. There are more than ninety V.C. Andrews novels, which have sold over 107 million copies worldwide and have been translated into twenty-five foreign languages.  Join the conversation about the world of V.C. Andrews at Facebook.com/OfficialVCAndrews. Free, at Last! How young we were the day we escaped. How exuberantly alive we should have felt to be freed, at last, from such a grim, lonely and stifling place. How pitifully delighted we should have been to be riding on a bus that rumbled slowly southward. But if we felt joy, we didn't show it. We sat, all three, pale, silent, staring out the windows, very frightened by all we saw. Free. Was ever a word more wonderful than that one? No, even though the cold and bony hands of death would reach out and drag us back, if God wasn't up there somewhere, or maybe down here on the bus, riding with us and looking out for us. At some time in our life we had to believe in someone. The hours passed with the miles. Our nerves grew frazzled because the bus stopped often to pick up and let off passengers. It stopped for rest breaks, for breakfast, then to pick up a single huge black lady who stood alone where a dirt road met the concrete interstate. It took her forever to pull herself onto the bus, then lug inside the many bundles she carried with her. Just as she was finally seated, we passed over the state line between Virginia and North Carolina. Oh! The relief to be gone from that state of our imprisonment! For the first time in years, I began to relax -- a little. We three were the youngest on the bus. Chris was seventeen years old and strikingly handsome with long, waving blond hair that just touched his shoulders, then curled upward. His darkly fringed blue eyes rivaled the color of a summer sky, and he was in personality like a warm sunny day -- he put on a brave face despite the bleakness of our situation. His straight and finely shaped nose had just taken on the strength and maturity that promised to make him all that our father had been -- the type of man to make every woman's heart flutter when he looked her way, or even when he didn't. His expression was confident; he almost looked happy. If he hadn't looked at Carrie he might have even been happy. But when he saw her sickly, pale face, he frowned and worry darkened his eyes. He began to pluck on the strings of the guitar strapped to his shoulder. Chris played "Oh Susannah," singing softly in a sweet melancholy voice that touched my heart. We looked at each other and felt sad with the memories the tune brought back. Like one we were, he and I. I couldn't bear to look at him for too long, for fear I would cry. Curled up on my lap was my younger sister. She didn't look older than three, but she was eight years old and small, so pitifully small, and weak. In her large, shadowed blue eyes fingered more dark secrets and sufferings than a child her age should know. Carrie's eyes were old, very, very old. She expected nothing: no happiness, no love, nothing -- for all that had been wonderful in her life had been taken from her. Weakened by apathy, she seemed willing to pass from life into death. It hurt to see her so alone, so terribly alone now that Cory was gone. I was fifteen. The year was 1960, and it was November. I wanted ev...

Product details

• Authors: V. C. Andrews, V.c. Andrews
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 20.05.2014
• EAN: 9781476789552
• ISBN: 978-1-4767-8955-2
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 210 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Dollanganger; Dollanganger
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage