Dark Angel

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. V.C. Andrews has written more than seventy novels! which have sold more than 106 million copies worldwide and been translated into twenty-five foreign languages. Join the conversation about the world of V.C. Andrews at Facebook.com/OfficialVCAndrews. Klappentext At last, Heaven would find the happiness she longed for...free from the scorn and contempt of her past! In her grandmother's fine, rich Boston house, Heaven Leigh Casteel dreamed of a wonderful new life of new friends, the best schools, beautiful clothes and most important, love. The pearls of culture, wisdom and breeding would now be hers. Soon she would make the Casteel name respectable, find her brothers and sisters, and have a family again. But even in the world of the wealthy, there were strange forebodings, secrets best forgotten. And as Heaven reached out for love, she was slowly ensnared in a sinister web of cruel deceits and hidden passions! From Chapter 1: Coming Home All about me the large house loomed dark, mysterious, and lonely. The shadows whispered of secrets, of incidents best forgotten, and hinted of dangers, but said nothing at all about the safety and security I needed most. This was my mother´s home, my dead mother´s home. The longed-for home that had called to me when I lived in that mountain shack in the Willies; called loud and sweet into my childish ears so I had been beguiled by thoughts of all the happiness waiting just for me, once I was here. Here in these rainbowed rooms of dreams fulfilled I´d find the golden pot of family love -- the kind I´d never known. And around my neck I´d wear the pearls of culture, wisdom, and breeding that would keep me free from harm, from scorn, from contempt. And so like a bride I waited for all those wonderful things to appear and decorate me, but they didn´t come. As I sat there on her bed, the vibrations in her room aroused the troubled thoughts that always crowded into the darkest corners of my brain. Why had my mother run away from a house like this? Poor Granny had led me out into that cold, wintry night so many years ago, to visit a cemetery where she could tell me I wasn´t Sarah´s first child, and show me my mother´s grave. My mother, a beautiful runaway Boston girl named Leigh. Poor Granny with her ignorant, innocent brain. What a trusting soul she´d been, believing her youngest son Luke would sooner or later prove himself worthy enough to lift up the scorned, and ridiculed name of Casteel. "Scumbags," I seemed to hear ringing like church bells in the darkness an around me, "no good, never will be no good, none of ´em..." and my hands rose to my head to shut out the sound. Someday I´d make my granny proud, though she was dead. Someday when I had my string of degrees I´d go again to the Willies, to kneel at the foot of her grave, and I´d say all the words that would make Granny happier than she´d ever been in life. I didn´t doubt in the least that Granny up in heaven would smile down on me, and she´d know at last one Casteel had made it through high school, then college... What an ignorant innocent I was to arrive with so much hope. It had all happened so fast: the plane landing, my frenzied scramble to find my way through the crowded airport to the luggage carousel, all the worldly things I´d thought would be so easy, but they weren´t so easy. I was scared even after I found my two blue suitcases that see...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: V. C. Andrews
• Con la collaborazione di: Linda Marrow (Editore)
• Editore: Pocket Books USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 25.05.2011
• EAN: 9781451656961
• ISBN: 978-1-4516-5696-1
• Pagine: 488
• Serie: Casteel; Casteel
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi