Olivia

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 more than twenty-five foreign languages. Andrews’s life story is told in The Woman Beyond the Attic . Join the conversation about the world of V.C. Andrews at Facebook.com/OfficialVCAndrews. Klappentext Olivia Logan knew her younger sister Belinda would get into trouble. She justnever realized how deep the pool of disaster would go. Chapter 1: Cries in the Night At first I thought I was dreaming, for when I woke and opened my eyes, I heard nothing but the low whistle of the wind blowing up from the ocean. The stream of moonlight filtering through my sheer white curtain bathed the walls in a pale yellow glow. My window shutters banged against the clapboard and then, I heard the sound again, this time with my eyes wide. I listened, my heart tapping like a steadily growing drumbeat in anticipation of some important announcement or event. After a moment I heard it once more. It sounded like a cat in heat, but we had no cats. Daddy hated pets, finding them more of an obligation than a pleasure. The only animals he said had any purpose was a watchdog or a seeing-eye dog, and he had no need for either. Our house was far enough away from the downtown Provincetown area and surrounded by walls ten feet high with an entrance gate Daddy had Jerome, our grounds keeper, lock every night. Daddy also kept his shotgun under the bed, "just in case." It was, he said, a lot cheaper than feeding some mongrel, and that, he concluded, "was the bottom line." This time the sound was even louder. I sat up so quickly someone would think I had springs under me, but I realized the shrill cries were not in my imagination or from nightmares. The noise was coming through the wall between my room and Belinda's. It wasn't a howl, exactly, nor was it a screech. There was something familiar about the sound and yet something starkly unusual. It was certainly not a noise Belinda would make herself, but there was no doubt it was emanating from her bedroom. I stepped off my bed, scooped up my robe from the chair beside my bed, and shoved my arms into the sleeves as I left my room. Daddy and Mother had already come out of their bedroom. Mother was still in her nightgown and Daddy was in his pajamas. The dreadful sound continued. "What in all hell..." Daddy started for Belinda's closed door. I followed, with Mother a distant third, but when Daddy opened the door and realized the horrendous scream came from Belinda, Mother charged forward. "Winston, what's wrong?" she cried. Daddy flicked on the light, illuminating the most amazing and alarming sight before us. Belinda was sprawled on the floor, her nightgown bloody and crumbled up to her breasts. There, lying between her legs was a newly-born infant, the umbilical cord and afterbirth still attached. Belinda's eyes were wild with terror. The baby's eyes were closed, and it jerked its tiny arm and then stopped moving. "Jesus, Mary and Joseph," Daddy exclaimed under his breath, his feet hammered to the floor by astonishment. Mother's eyes rolled back in her head and she folded at Daddy's feet as if her spinal cord had turned to jelly. "Leonora!" "Take her to bed, Daddy," I said. "I'll see ...

Product details

• Authors: V C Andrews, V. C. Andrews, V.C. Andrews
• Publisher: Pocket Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 14.01.1999
• EAN: 9780671007614
• ISBN: 978-0-671-00761-4
• No. of pages: 373
• Dimensions: 104 mm x 172 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Logan; Logan; THE LOGAN FAMILY
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage