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Butterfly
All she wanted was to be someone's little girl....
Fate made her a lonely orphan, yearning for the embrace of a real family and
a loving home. But a golden chance at a new life may not be enough to escape the dark secrets of her past....
She was the answer to all her new parents' dreams
but as fragile as a butterfly.
For as long as she could remember, Janet's world had been the orphanage, full
of cruel jokes and silent wishes for the day she'd have a family of her own. She hardly believed it when Sanford and Celine
Delorice chose her to be their daughter, whisking her away from her tragic past.
Her new father is handsome and kind, and though Celine is confined to a wheelchair,
she is the most beautiful and elegant woman Janet has ever seen. Soon Janet learns the routines of their grand estate, including
those of the studio where she takes ballet lessons from a strict teacher. Celine is convinced Janet will one day dazzle audiences
as a ballerina, just as she did before her accident. Eager to bring sunshine to all their days, Janet tries with all her might
to please them. But she is dancing on a fragile web of happiness, never knowing what might happen if one glittering strand
should break....
Crystal
All she wanted was a family she could call her own...
As an orphan girl, Crystal was one of many and utterly alone. But she still
dreamed of a shining life of love and happiness, and freedom from the dark legacy of her past...
Bright and fearless, Crystal will discover that new
parents can mean new worries....
When the Morrises choose Crystal from all the girls and boys in the orphanage,
she is full of optimism at last she has a home to call her own. Karl Morris, her new dad, likes math as much as she likes
science, and he's already proud of her being a good student. Thelma, her new mom, makes her feel truly wanted for the first
time. And though Thelma seems more interested in her television soap operas than in real life, Crystal feels in her heart
that their tidy little house will become a real home.
Crystal is especially pleased when the Morrises approve of her first boyfriend.
But she will soon discover that in her new home, sadness is banished to the back of a closet... and that means no one is prepared
when a shocking tragedy comes rattling at the door.
Brooke
All she wanted was a mother's warm embrace....
Brooke was an orphan, abandoned long ago by a mother she barely knew. And
though her new family seemed to offer the promise of a fresh beginning, a dark voice in her heart told her that she was now
more alone than ever....
It was like a magic carpet to a glamorous new
life....
In Brooke's most secret dreams, her mother would return to the orphanage,
full of remorse for having left her there so long ago. Brooke never imagined a rich couple who looked like movie stars saying,
"We'll take her," and whisked her away to be their daughter.
Yet Pamela Thompson and her husband, Peter, seem thrilled to welcome her to
their huge, gleaming house. Soon Brooke is enrolled in a snobby girls school, and receiving daily lessons in etiquette. Every
hour and every outfit is planned to prepare her for the beauty pageants Pamela demands that she enter and win. But Brooke
just wants an ordinary life and to play on the school softball team, where her real talents are appreciated. For only when
she's on the field with her friends can she escape the dreadful feeling that she must always be obedient... or risk
losing her golden chance for a name, a home, and freedom from the terrible secrets of her past.
Raven
All she wanted was an end to broken promises....
Her Mama made it painfully clear that she wished Raven had never been born.
But even after she was sent to live with her kindly aunt and domineering uncle, humiliating secrets lurked and threatened
to dash forever Raven's dream of a true home....
Raven longed for a home like those she saw on TV....
Living with her drunken mother in a battered apartment hardly fit for humans,
Raven often heard how her birth twelve years ago was a big mistake. Then her mother was arrested, and her Uncle Reuben took
Raven to live with him, her aunt, and two cousins. Aunt Clara welcomed her warmly, and for the first time Raven had her own
room in a clean, orderly household. In spite of Uncle Reuben's strict rules and cruel comments, as she fell asleep on her
own soft pillow she felt in her heart a faint tremor of hope.
But while she knew that Uncle Reuben preferred not to have her there, Raven
couldn't guess at the shocking secrets lurking beneath the family's ordinary facade... or anticipate the painful humiliation
that would make her wish for her old life with Mama again....
Runaways
The spellbinding Orphans series concludes in this
thrilling new novel from V.C. Andrews®...
"All for one and one for all" was the girls' motto. In the grim foster home
for orphans run by Louise and Gordon Tooey, at least Brooke, Crystal, Raven, and Butterfly had each other. Calling themselves
"sisters," together they could forget the past and dream of a new chance... a real home. Then they discovered a secret even
more haunting than Gordon's heavy boots pounding on the wooden floors. Their fragile hopes of a better life shattered, they
escaped the only way they could. Soon they were runaways in a borrowed car, desperately wishing to wake up one morning in
a place of sunshine and love.
Raven hoped to be a singer, Butterfly wanted to be a dancer, Crystal planned
for college, and Brooke privately hoped to find her mother in California. On the open road the chains of sadness that had
bound them seemed to melt away, and the kindness of strangers made a secure future seem almost real. But the highway was a
dangerous place, and soon they were penniless and more vulnerable than ever. Alone under the wide western sky, they had only
each other to ask if they should give up their dreams... or if they were really halfway to a haven of safety and happiness....
Orphans
Four girls caught in the shadows of the past....
Four extraordianry New York Times bestselling novels together for the first time.
Butterfly... She was a lonely orphan
until a wealthy couple gave her a home and a chance to be a world-class ballerina. But her newfound happiness was as fragile
as a spider's web.
Crystal... Bright and gifted with a
flair for science, she found loving new parents, and a boyfriend in her new school. But a shocking tragedy could shatter her
perfect world.
Brooke... Whisked away from the orphanage
into a glamorous life, she was surrounded by every privilege a girl could want. But all she really wanted was to be loved
just as she is.
Raven... She put her painful past behind
her when she was taken in by her aunt and uncle. But the torment she was about to endure was far worse than anything she had
experienced before.
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