Heaven
Feb 2011 · Casteel Book 1 · Simon and Schuster
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From the legendary New York Times bestselling author of Flowers in the Attic and My Sweet Audrina (now Lifetime movies) comes the first book in the Casteel Family series—for fans of Emma Donoghue (Room) and Kay Hooper (Amanda).
Of all the folks on the mountain, the Casteel children are the lowest. Even the families that buy them think so.
Heaven Leigh Casteel may be the prettiest, smartest girl in the backwoods, but her cruel father and weary stepmother work her like a mule. For the sake of her brother Tom and the other little ones, Heaven clings to the hope that someday she can show the world that they are worthy of love and respect.
But when the children’s stepmother can’t take it anymore and abandons the family, Heaven’s father hatches a scheme that will alter her young life forever. Being sold to a strange couple is just the beginning; ripping away the thin veneer of civilization and learning the adult secrets of the world around her means Heaven must abandon someone, too—the child she was, to become the woman her mother never had the chance to be.
Of all the folks on the mountain, the Casteel children are the lowest. Even the families that buy them think so.
Heaven Leigh Casteel may be the prettiest, smartest girl in the backwoods, but her cruel father and weary stepmother work her like a mule. For the sake of her brother Tom and the other little ones, Heaven clings to the hope that someday she can show the world that they are worthy of love and respect.
But when the children’s stepmother can’t take it anymore and abandons the family, Heaven’s father hatches a scheme that will alter her young life forever. Being sold to a strange couple is just the beginning; ripping away the thin veneer of civilization and learning the adult secrets of the world around her means Heaven must abandon someone, too—the child she was, to become the woman her mother never had the chance to be.
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4.6
176 reviews
Sara Marr
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31 December 2013
This is my all-time favorite book, written by my favorite author & I enjoy reading the Casteel series all over again every few years now as an adult as I did when I first read this story becoming captivated as I turned each page. This is a story about a family going through whirlwinds of change, each wind causing bigger & bigger lifelong impacts filled with desperation, inspiration and by the end of the series you may genuinely feel impacted yourself when you visit the series again time after time over years not able to get enough of these perfectly inter-woven stories.
Amelia May
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9 September 2024
I absolutely love this series. I read the whole series the summer before I turned 16 years old. I'll be 45 in a week and I would read the all the books again it's that good.
Jennifer Roberts
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16 July 2016
So very very good!! I read like all these ever made while in HS now im rereading!! They r just as good the 2nd time if not better, cuz u understand more or sumthin! Heaven is,a very good book perhaps my fave, so u shld def read it its a MUST! Typical rags to riches story with twists n turns tht keep u on the edge of ur seat without u even realizing it!!! U hve GOT to read this book!! Lol Enjoy ... Lmao, i think we ALL agree this is the best series!!!
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About the author
One of the most popular authors of all time, V.C. Andrews has been a bestselling phenomenon since the publication of Flowers in the Attic, first in the renowned Dollanganger family series, which includes Petals on the Wind, If There Be Thorns, Seeds of Yesterday, and Garden of Shadows. The family saga continues with Christopher’s Diary: Secrets of Foxworth, Christopher’s Diary: Echoes of Dollanganger, and Secret Brother, as well as Beneath the Attic, Out of the Attic, and Shadows of Foxworth as part of the fortieth anniversary celebration. There are more than ninety V.C. Andrews novels, which have sold over 107 million copies worldwide and have been translated into more than twenty-five foreign languages. Andrews’s life story is told in The Woman Beyond the Attic. Join the conversation about the world of V.C. Andrews at Facebook.com/OfficialVCAndrews.
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