ies! Christie, Dawn's daughter, searches for her own happiness and break the cycle of darkness that has plagued her family for generations in this book in the Cutler series from #1 New York Times bestselling author V.C. Andrews.

Having grown up surrounded by love and safety, there's no real reason for Christie Longchamp to feel that a cloud hovers over Cutler's Cove--a cloud with origins in her family's troubled history.

But when Christie discovers the truth about her uncle's unbrotherly love for her mother Dawn, she's desperate to get away. Fleeing to New York City, she finds her real father...a pathetic, helpless has-been. Desperate and heartbroken, she turns to Gavin, her Daddy Jimmy's young and handsome stepbrother. In his arms, Christie finds a refuge from her painful memories.

But all too soon, she is torn from Gavin's embrace and as black storms of evil gather around her, Christie must do what it takes to defy the curse that has haunted Cutler's Cove for generations.