Celeste

He was her mirror image. Now the mirror has cracked.

Celeste and her identical twin brother, Noble, are as close as can be -- until a tragic accident takes Noble's life. It's a loss that pushes their mother, a woman obsessed with New Age superstitions, over the edge....

Desperate to keep her son "alive," Celeste's mother forces her to cut her hair, wear boys' clothes, and take on Noble's identity. Celeste has virtually disappeared -- until a handsome boy moves in next door, and Celeste will risk her mother's wrath to let herself come back to life.

Black Cat- set to come out in September 2004

New York Times bestselling author V.C. Andrewss second book in the Gemini series is the continuing saga of Celeste, a woman forced to hide her identity and her baby - until the secret becomes impossible to keep...

Celeste, still in the guise of her deceased brother Noble and fully engulfed in her mothers spiritual world, is now raising Baby Celeste, a child she must deny as her own. For the first two years of Baby Celestes life, her existence is kept secret.

But when her mother falls for Dave Fletcher, their neighbor and Baby Celestes grandfather, and Daves uncontrollable daughter Betsy returns home, the household turns deadly, as jealousy flairs and the truth is finally revealed.