Darkest Hour

The unforgettable finale of the Cutler series from #1 New York Times bestselling author V.C. Andrews takes us back to the dark beginnings of the Cutler family.Growing up on the thriving plantation called The Meadows, Lillian Booths world is full of grand parties and vibrant promise. No one, not even her cold, stern Papa and her Bible spouting sister Emily, can crush her spiritsuntil the day Emily reveals the shattering secret of Lillians birth, a secret her mother sadly cannot deny. Still Lillian refuses to believe Emilys hateful claim that she is cursed...but when tragedy befalls her best friend, the one boy whose tender heart mirrors her own, Lillian comes to believe her sisters grim words. Meekly, she endures her penance, finding a strange solace in the endless repetition of prayers in a room stripped of all comforts. But when Papa loses The Meadows in a card game, Lillian is faced with a new and terrifying prospectarrogant, handsome playboy Bill Cutler will return the plantationif Lillian will marry him. Now Lillian must leave her girlhood home behind and make a bold new beginning as the mistress of a hotel called Cutlers Cove.