Secrets in the Shadows - [Secrets 02] - V C Andrews 2008 English

Everyone Says Her Mother Was Crazy.

Is She Doomed to Repeat the Past?

Up in the attic, that's where Alice's mother used to escapeto...and it's where, so Alice has been told, she plotted the murder of her ownstepfather. Now, years later, with her mother locked away for life, the atticis where Alice finds comfort in her aloneness, writing poetry and paintingpictures. When Alice finally finds the courage to come out of her shell,exchanging her dowdy looks for flattering clothes and makeup, her lifecompletely opens up -- she even attends the prom with a cute, popular boy. Butit's a night that turns quickly tragic -- sending her newfound happinesscrashing down around her, and hurtling Alice into a shattering new life, onethat leads her to a shocking reunion with the shadows she had fled.