Fearful of being a minister's wife, Carrie is sent into doubt.

However, when the man tells Carrie he plans to be a minister, it's revealed that Carrie heard and now understood the bitter lectures their Grandmother, Olivia, spoke of, calling the children devil's spawn and sinful. All the while Cathy intends on revealing her true identity as Bart's stepdaughter.Ĭarrie meanwhile, always depressed over not having a love of her own while Cathy has several, meets a young man and they have a rich courtship. Under the guise of collecting Julian's insurance, she hires her mother's husband, Bart Winslow, as her lawyer, with the intention of seducing him however, the two fall in love and begin a prolonged affair. Cathy, though guilt-ridden, is free.Īfter the birth of her son named Jory (J for Julian, the rest for Cory), Cathy once more becomes determined to destroy her mother's life. He commits suicide in his hospital bed when he learns he will never dance again. In the midst of this conflict, Julian is rendered paralyzed in a car accident. However, Cathy is pregnant with his child and feels she cannot leave her husband, even though both Paul and Chris insist that she must for her own safety.

He abuses her, breaking her toes so that she cannot perform. Julian is possessive of Cathy and jealous of her relationship with both Paul and Chris. Though Cathy soon falls in love with Paul, she marries a man in her dance troupe, a fiery dancer named Julian Marquet who has been pursuing her from the moment he saw her. She is determined to become a world famous prima ballerina, just as she planned as a child, so that her mother cannot deny her existence. Cathy grows to be a beautiful young lady but is still bitter and bent on revenge against her mother, seeing her as the root of every problem in their lives - from Carrie's deformities to Chris's incestuous obsession with her. The doctor also sees Chris's potential and enrolls the boy into a medical school, where he soon readjusts to life outside Foxworth Hall. Cathy tells Paul their story and he convinces them to stay with him.Ĭarrie, though physically stunted through malnutrition and lack of sunlight and fresh air during her formative years, thrives under Dr.

While her elder siblings panic over how to get her the medical attention she so desperately needs without revealing their identities or exhausting their limited funds, the children are discovered by Henrietta 'Henny' Beech, the mute housekeeper of a local doctor, Paul Sheffield. Carrie, still weak from the effects of the poison that killed her twin, is taken ill on the journey. A continuation to the previous book Flowers in the Attic, the story starts off with Cathy, Chris, and Carrie using their stolen funds to escape by bus to Sarasota.

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