The Unwelcomed Child

In the continuing tradition of bestselling author V.C. Andrews The Unwelcomed Child explores the eternal question: Why do the ones we love hurt us the most? Desperate to be a normal teenager beautiful young Elle Edwards must uncover the truth of her birth to find the familial love she craves. Elle Edwards grew up believing that because of her mothers sinful ways she was born without a soul; thats why she was abandoned and left in the care of Grandmother Myra and Grandfather Prescott who try to ensure her evil will not infect themby raising her in a virtual prison. Because her days are occupied with homeschooling strict religious studies and vigorous housekeeping in their upstate New York home Elle knows practically nothing of the outside world even as she emerges as a young woman with impressive artistic talent. But when she makes a secret forbidden connection to vacationers at the nearby lakea handsome boy and his precocious twin sisterElles world will shatter. Will discovering the truths about her past send her future plummeting to hell?