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Preparing for her high-school graduation, young bayou teen Gabriel is raped and impregnated by rich cannery owner Octavious Tate and is subsequently forced to surrender her baby boy to her attacker's wife.
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Characters/People edit
- Mama: Gabriel's mother who is a Cajun healer that creates potions.
- Gabriel Landry: Teen girl who is raped and impregnated by married town cannery owner.
- Pierre Dumas: Rich married man that sweeps Gabriel off her feet.
- Gladys Tate: Wife of Octavious Tate who pretends to be pregnant.
- Jack Landry: The father of Gabriel, a drunken gambler who has a debt to pay
- Paul: Add a description of this character.
- Catherine
- Henry
- Yvette
- Daphne: The wife of Pierre Dumas
- Madame Tate
- Octavious Tate
- Evelyn
- Madame Dumas
- Monsieur Tate
- Jed Atkins
- Mr. Pitot
- Monsieur Dumas
- Virgil
- Mrs. Parlange
- Monsieur Paxton
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First Sentence edit
The sound of the screen door being slammed sharply at my family's shack house ricocheted like a gunshot through the willow trees and cottonwood, quickening my footsteps.
Table of Contents edit
Prologue
Chapter One - My Own Eden
Chapter Two - Paradise Lost
Chapter Three - Hiding from Mama
Chapter Four - Bought and Sold
Chapter Five - Denied the Sun
Chapter Six - Madame's Secret Pain
Chapter Seven - A Friend Appears
Chapter Eight - Mine for a Moment
Chapter Nine - A Tormented Spy
Chapter Ten - Falling
Chapter Eleven - The Hidden Ring
Chapter Twelve - Following My Heart
Chapter Thirteen - Secret Wife
Chapter Fourteen - Up in Smoke
Chapter Fifteen - Gone but Not Forgotten
Epilogue
Authors & Contributors edit
- V. C. Andrews (Author)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.54
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