He is a handsome English aristocrat, sprawled in the dunes, dying of thirst. She is a white-skinned savage, fleeing the aborigine tribe that found her and raised her but still shunned the fiery-haired outcast.Suddenly, Meg is about to escape her primitive life as Luke introduces her to the strange ways of Victorian England. In a search filled with adventure and excitement that spans three continents, Meg uncovers the clues to her true identity and realizes someone is trying to kill her. But the mysteries and secrets of the aborigines still pulse through the Victorian young lady, enabling Meg to triumph in the final desperate battle for survival and claim the only man she will ever love.

    [Penguin Readers Level 3]

    Then she entered Foxworth Hall...V.C. Andrews' thrilling new novel spins a tale of dreadful secrets and dark, forbidden passions--of the time before Flowers in the Attic began. Long before terror flowered in the attic, thin, spinsterish Olivia came to Virginia as Malcolm Foxworth's bride. At last, with her tall handsome husband, she would find the joy she has waited for, longed for. But in the gloomy mansion filled with hidden rooms and festering desires, a stain of jealous obsession begins to spread... an evil that will threaten her children, two lovely boys and one very special, beautiful girl. For within one innocent child, a shocking secret lives... a secret that will taint the proud Foxworth name, and haunt all their lives forever!The wicked curse of the Dollanganger family begins in... Garden of Shadows(back cover)

    -- Booklist Includes The Tell-Tale Heart; The Cask of Amontillado; The Masque of the Red Death; Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar; The Black Cat; The Raven; Annabel Lee; Ulalume; and The Bells.

    Each title features: - Critical essays reflecting a variety of schools of criticism- Notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index- An introductory essay by Harold Bloom.

    But the Marquess of Gard remains aloof until he and Arabella are forced into an extraordinary situation. And for Arabella, nothing will ever be the same again.

    Since Ann's untimely death, evil had settled over Briarcliff, and Stephen was fighting for his survival.Jessica Rice sought to uncover the truth about the accident that had claimed her sister's life, but the mystery only deepened. Intrigue wove around intrigue, casting all the occupants of Briarcliff under the gloom of suspicion. No one could be trusted - including Stephen.Jessica had never felt so alone, or so gravely in danger.

    Unless she could recall that past event, ranch manager Royce Christopher knew that Cindi would never be free of it.But Cindi sensed that Royce underestimated the importance of that memory. Someone was watching her now, waiting for the chance to bury that memory forever....

    One day a boar being brought to service a sow escapes in the village and runs loose in the shop. This is the first in a bizarre chain of events that encompasses birth, death, and the joys of parenthood; the contentment of country life, and the stench of a dead body in the septic tank; the natural and supernatural in outrageous forms; sex in the back of a truck at the Inland Waterways Rally; flying accusations at the Flower Show; and the decline and fall of the village policeman. Sometimes ridiculous, always gallant, the girls triumph in the end, but not until they have endured moments of high drama, stark horror - and a few of pure farce.

    First, a soft tapping, then shadowy figures, then a silvered mirror splintering with blinding light. Mariel would wake up sobbing in terror. She knew the dream was a warning--the same warning her mother had whispered: don't go back, never go back. But her mother was dead now, and San Francisco beckoned to her, a city glistening with the promise of a new beginnings...She gladly accepted a position as personal secretary to wealthy Mrs. Collier. Then she began to fall in love--unwillingly, inexorably--with the very man she suspected her mother had feared. As the golden city became a place shrouded in fog and shadows, Mariel realized the secrets of the past could yet destroy her. And it was her dream that held the key to either happiness or horror...if only she could find it before she was trapped in love's illusion--caught in a deadly CRYSTAL WEB...