Flowers in the Attic

Children are supposed to love and trust their parents.

Christopher, Cathy, Carrie and Cory were four of the most beloved children in their hometown of Gladstone, Pennsylvania. Their parents, Christopher and Corrine, were envied just as much as their children and the family was often called the "Dresden Dolls". Their lives would change forever when Christopher Sr is killed on his way home. The family begins to struggle to keep things together while trying to find a way to go forward.

Corrine's solution comes in a letter from Foxworth Hall in Virginia. A letter explaining what was needed in order for the young mother and her four children to have a roof over their head. Tidbits of the truth come out to Christopher and Cathy about their family and their real surname.

They arrive in the dead of night to the manor house and taken upstairs to the north wing. There, they are revealed to their grandmother Olivia Foxworth and the agreement is explained. The four children would remained locked in the room until their grandfather, Malcolm Foxworth, dies. They cannot be seen nor heard by anyone else than their grandmother and their mother.

During the course of three years, the children find out that their mother displeased their grandfather by marrying her half-uncle, their father. They become everything to each other while their mother begins to neglect them and marries another man. Then they suffer a total loss when it is believed that their brother, Cory, died after becoming ill. It is realized by Christopher, after giving their pet mouse some of the powdered donuts they had been eating, that their brother died of poison and all three left were poisoned.

Christopher and Cathy begin to steal money, jewelry, and anything else worth of value to fund their escape from Foxworth Hall. It is during this that they find out that their grandfather had been dead for awhile.

The story ends with Christopher, Cathy, and Carrie escaping Foxworth Hall on a train heading for Florida and away from the horrors that had been their life for the past three years.