Pearl in the Mist

The second novel in the exciting new V.C. Andrews series: a young girl growing up on the Louisiana bayou discovers she has another family…

Even after living there for a year, 16-year old Ruby Dumas still wonders at the splendor of her father's New Orleans mansion and rejoices in the warmth of his love. But true happiness eludes her, for Ruby must carefully avoid a venomous enemy: her stepmother, who cringes and sneers at Ruby's backwater upbringing. Ruby's backwater. And Ruby's every effort to befriend her crippled twin sister. Gisselle, is answered with bitterness.

Being sent off to idyllic Greenwood the exclusive girls' boarding school, seems to promise some peace. But Ruby's kind isn't welcome at Greenwood, and the legendarily strict headmistress, Mrs. Ironwood, plots with Ruby's stepmother to make her life miserable. Still, Ruby never loses hope…until a tragedy leaves her alone in a world that never really wanted her.