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 ! 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 eighty 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. 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 seemed amazingly heavy. I looked around and floundered, filled with trepidation. What if my grandparents didn't come? What if they had second thoughts about welcoming an unknown granddaughter into their secure, wealthy world? They had done without me this long, why not forever? And so I stood and waited, and as the minutes passed I became convinced they'd never show up. Even when a strikingly handsome couple advanced toward me, wearing the richest clothes I'd ever seen, still I was nailed to the floor, unable to believe that may...

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• Autori: V.C. Andrews, Virginia C. Andrews
• Editore: Pocket Books USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.08.1990
• EAN: 9780671729394
• ISBN: 978-0-671-72939-4
• Dimensioni: 105 mm x 170 mm x 28 mm
• Serie: Casteel; Casteel
• Categoria: Narrativa > Gialli > Polizieschi, thriller, spionaggio