web of dreams Author:v.c. andrews Here is a brand-new thriller from the writer The New York Times hailed as "the fastest selling author in America." Returning to Farthinggale Manor for Troy Tatterton's funeral, Heaven's daughter, Annie, finds the once-luxurious rooms shrouded in dust and decay. In her greatgrandmother's suite, Annie discovers a worn, leather-bound diary that o... more »nce belonged to Leigh, Heaven's mother. The diary begins with 12-year-old Leigh eagerly anticipating a family trip to Jamaica. But her joy is shattered when Jillian, her exquisitely beautiful mother, announces she is divorcing Leigh's father to marry the dashing, young Tony Tatterton, heir to the Tatterton Toy empire. Soon Leigh is living with them at Farthinggale Manor, the palatial Tatterton estate. But the elegant mansion offers little comfort. Her mother, tired of Tony's insatiable sexual demands and obsessed with keeping her fading beauty, ignores Leigh. Tony, banished from Jillian's bedroom, becomes consumed with lust for Leigh and one night, unable to control his raging desire, he rapes her. Shocked and even more devastated when she learns she is pregnant, Leigh turns to her mother for help. But Jillian refuses to believe her, claiming that Leigh had begged Tony to make love to her. Horrified by her mother's betrayal, Leigh runs away. She soon meets the handsome Luke Casteel, who marries her and takes her to his home in the hill country of West Virginia. Yet Leigh's happiness is short-lived. For her unfinished diary provides Annie with one last clue to the tragic and mysterious secrets that have engulfed the Casteel family for three generations.« less