V.C Andrews

"When former teacher Paula Eden adopts Faith and Trevor, she is astounded by their natural intelligence and decides to homeschool them to nurture their brilliance. But as the years go on, Faith and Trevor itch for more independence. When Faith sets her sights on a handsome young man visiting from out of town, Paula grows increasingly desperate to preserve her small family and her plans for the children to carry on her legacy. Luckily, she has a cohort...

With the help of her boyfriend and her uncle, Hannah sets out for New Orleans to follow her drams of singing. But life on the road holds many dark surprises--and shattering realities that Hannah herself may not be ready to face.

After years of self-torture, a young woman comes to terms with her brutal rape.

Follows the experiences of Heaven, one of the very poor Casteel children who are sold to different families by their father.

Up in the attic, that's where Alice's mother used to escape to...and it's where, so Alice has been told, she plotted the murder of her own stepfather. Now, years later, with her mother locked away for life, the attic is where Alice finds comfort in her aloneness, writing poetry and painting pictures. When Alice finally finds the courage to come out of her shell, exchanging her dowdy looks for flattering clothes and makeup, her life completely opens...

Olivia, always the responsible older daughter, grows up feeling ignored in favor of her flighty, flirtatious sister Belinda, but as the girls grow older Olivia comes to relish the power of being in charge and uses that power to control the people in her life.