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In the heart of the bayou, Ruby Landry lives a simple, happy life. But innocence can't last forever... The only family Ruby Landry has ever known are her loving guardian, Grandmère Catherine, a Cajun spiritual healer, and her drunken, outcast Grandpèrb Jack. Although thinking about her dead... read more

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During the first fifteen years of my life, my birth and the events surrounding it were a mystery; as much as mystery as the number of stars that shone in the night sky over the bayou or where the silvery catfish hid on days when Grandpere couldn't catch one to save his life.

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Prologue
Book One
Chapter One - Grandmere's Powers
Chapter Two - No Landrys Allowed
Chapter Three - I Wish We Were a Family
Chapter Four - Learning to Be a Liar
Chapter Five - Who Is the Little Girl If It's Not Me?
Chapter Six - Room in My Heart
Chapter Seven - The Truth Will Out
Chapter Eight - It's Hard to Change
Chapter Nine - Hard Lessons
Book Two
Chapter Ten - An Unexpected Friend
Chapter Eleven - Just Like Cinderella
Chapter Twelve - Blue-Blood Welcome
Chapter Thirteen - I Can't Be You
Chapter Fourteen - Someone's Crying
Chapter Fifteen - A Tour of Storyville
Chapter Sixteen - Fitting In
Chapter Seventeen - A Formal Dinner Date
Chapter Eighteen - A Curse
Chapter Nineteen - Fate Keeps On Happening
Chapter Twenty - Bird in a Gilded Cage
Chapter Twenty-One - Betrayed Again
Epilogue

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This is book 1 of 5 in Landry. (standard series)

Followed by Pearl in the Mist.

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  1. V. C. Andrews (Author)

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Page Count: 442

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