Title: The Garden of Shadows - Virginia C. Andrews - book
Summary :
Malcolm and Olivia Foxworth's marriage has turned into a disaster. Their union has produced two sons, while Malcolm's true nature—hard, cold, and selfish—has gradually revealed itself. Malcolm's father then bursts into their resentful existence. He is happily remarried to a beautiful young woman, Alicia, whom Malcolm immediately dreams of possessing. The death of her father leaves her defenseless. It is the beginning of a slow escalation into madness and horror, the aim of which is to preserve the respectability of the couple torn apart by hatred. Pregnant, Alicia is held captive until she gives birth, then driven out. Malcolm and Olivia seize her baby and pass it off as their own...
The history of the Garden of Shadows takes place about twenty years before the first volume of Captive Flowers . It concludes this cult saga by Virginia Andrews, translated into ten languages and selling five million copies worldwide.
