V.C. Andrews, author of the phenomenally successful Dollanganger series, has created a fascinating new case of characters in this haunting story of love and deceit, innocence and betrayal, and the suffocating power of parental love.

Beautiful Audrina Adare spends her childhood feeling haunted by her namesake, an older sister who was raped and murdered on her ninth birthday. Audrina often experiences visions of the unspeakable evil her sister suffered.

Her father, a man obsessed with the perfection of his first daughter, keeps Audrina hidden at home and forces her to sit for hours in her dead sister's rocking chair as if to absorb the dead child's goodness.

One day, Audrina manages to slip out of the house and meets Arden Lowe, a handsome older boy. As the years pass, their secret friendship blossoms into love. But the nightmare that has plagued Audrina's childhood does not divulge its shattering truth until her wedding day.

Now she will come face to face with the dangerous, terrifying secret that everyone knows. Everyone except... My Sweet Audrina

Setting: Virginia, 1980s
New York Times Bestseller: #2, 15 weeks on list

© 1982 by Vanda Productions, Ltd. Published by Pocket Books of New York. 368 pages.

Background -- Damian
Sitting -- Audrina

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