Two beautiful blonde parents fell in love, got
married, and had four beautiful blonde children. Their lives were pretty blissful;
there was so much love and plenty to go around for everyone. Until the
unthinkable happened. Chris, the father, got into a horrific car accident and
died, leaving behind his extremely unprepared wife, Corrine, adolescents
Christopher and Cathy and four-year-old twins Carrie and Cory. They had a lot of
debt, so Corrine was forced to contact her parents who lived in Virginia whom
she had a major falling out with when she married Chris. When she finally heard
back from her mother, she told the children that their lives were going to
change for the better under the current circumstances. For her parents were
filthy rich and lived in a huge house. And Corrine had every intention of
winning back her ill father’s affections so that she could inherit everything.
So that THEY could inherit everything. The children believed in their mother,
they trusted her to make the right decision, and off they went. Things started
getting stranger and stranger as Cathy narrated their journey to Virginia, and
how they were ushered in the grand mansion in the middle of the night, given
one room with a bathroom attached, where they were expected to stay, and not
come out. Their mother assured them that everything would be fine, but the next
morning their evil grandmother came in with a basket full of food, a long list
of rules, and locking the door behind her, giving the four children the
impression that they wouldn’t be leaving that small room, for a long, long
time.
This novel is very much a psychological thriller,
although the author did allude to some of the awfulness that came about, I
never actually expected it to happen! I never dreamed that…okay wait; I’m going
to stop talking now.
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