Copied from the back cover of GARDEN OF SHADOWS...
V.C. Andrews' thrilling new novel spins a tale of dreadful secrets and dark, forbidden passions of the time before FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC began. Long before terror flowered in the attic, thin, spinsterish Olivia came to Virginia as Malcom Foxworth's bride. At last, with her tall handsome husband, she would find joy she had waited for, longed for. But in the gloomy mansion filled with hidden rooms and festering desires, a stain of jealous obsession begins to spread... an evil that will threaten her children, two lovely boys and one very special beautiful girl. For within one innocent child a shocking secret lives... a secret that will taint the proud Foxworth name, and haunt their lives forever!