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1 Melody ..
2 Heart Song ..
3 Unfinished Symphony ..
4 Music in the Night ..
5 Olivia
Olivia always knew her younger sister would get into trouble. But she never realized the undercurrents of disaster would grow to a raging flood.
Olivia was always the sensible one. The responsible sister. She took after their father, a man as cold and driven as the Cape Cod wind, a man possessed by an inner need to be respected and successful. She would be the one to take over his million-dollar businesses. She would become the unwavering compass and resilient caretaker of the Logan family -- whether she wanted to or not.
But Belinda belonged only to herself. Flighty, flirtatious, and possessed of a beauty that promised her a privileged life, Belinda was lavished with attention. Mother and Father, family friends, boys from school, they all adored Belinda. And as she matured into a young woman, her beauty became even more haunting. She vowed never to grow up, to remain forever an enchanting little girl to be worshiped and cared for. Then came that fateful night, when Olivia was awakened by the low whistle of the wind off the ocean... a whistle that became an unearthly wail coming from Belinda's bedroom. It was the tragic night that their father would forbid them to speak of ever again. The night they would never forget. The night that would send generations of Logans down an unavoidable path of lies, deceit, and heartbreak.
Setting: Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1950s
© 1999 by The Vanda General Partnership. Published by Pocket Books of New York. Tip-in illustration by Lisa Falkenstern. 400 pages.
Standing in rear -- Nurse Clara, Belinda, Nelson
Do you have an opinion about who's in the picture? Write to me.
"Isn't the man in the picture behind Olivia her father?"
"I thought that the girl with the nurse was Olivia's mother."
"It was well established that Belinda was drop-dead-gorgeous and
enchanting even at her worst, so how could that woman with the nurse do Belinda's reputation justice?"
"OK. A lot of people think the girl being held by the nurse isn't Belinda, but who else can it be? This was after baby Hallie was born, and both Belinda and Olivia's parents were dead by then. Also, Belinda doesn't look so drop-dead beautiful because this is after she's stopped taking care of herself. I wasn't sure who the guy in the background was, but it makes sense that he's Nelson, because he is both the father of Hallie, and he helped put Belinda in the metal insitution."
"I think that the man in the backround is Samuel. He always took the
backround in Olivia's life."
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Olivia
