Summary: After the reading of the will and the knowledge has been passed around about Rain, Victoria and Grant team up to try and get Rain to give up most of what she's inherited.

Megan, her Mother, had not told Alison or Brody about who she really was and Brody still has an incredible crush on her.

Corbette pays a surprise visit to Rain, he says he still wants to get to know her and tells her how sorry he was for his immature behavior. However, Rain discovers that he only is there because he thinks she is rich now. She lies and tells him that the rumors he has heard are all untrue and she didn't get anything, he leaves and she didn't hear from him again.

Brody pays a surprise visit as well, he gets a little drunk and tries to advance on Rain telling her how much he likes her and how they could have a great life together. He still doesn't know the truth and Rain doesn't want to tell him, thinking it is Megan's place not her own. She gets really ean with him, he gets upset and drives back home in the middle of the night and crashes his car and dies instantly.

The family spirals in turmoil. Rain blames herself, Megan becomes even more useless and Grant is in a deep depression. Victoria seems to become an ally with Rain.

Her Father, Larry Ward, says how he wants her to come back to London and have her be some part of his life. Leanna (His wife) also agrees to this. Rain wants it to be true, but is unsure.

Rain has a riding accident with Jakes horse and is paralyzed from the waist down. She is now in despair herself. She doesn't know what to do, she writes letters to both her Father and Roy explaining what has happened. Her dreams of becoming an actress now down the drain she thinks.

Jake drinks even more and Roy runs away from the military after receiving Rains letter. While trying to escape to see her he is arrested and held as AWOL.

Rain and her therapist Austin have a relationship and grow very close. Jake goes to the hospital and dies of liver disease from all the alcohol.

Victoria and Grant have a fling, she thinks he will chose her over Megan once Megan had a breakdown after Brody's sudden death and tries to commit suicide and is committed to an institute. However, Grant tosses Victory aside and takes Megan back and this turns Victoria a little crazy and she moves in with Rain in Grandmother Hudson's home.

Victoria in her nutty state of mind goes in and out of fantasies where she believes Rain to be Megan in her youth. At a point she even starves Rain and holds her prisoner in the Mansion. Rain finds out she's pregnant with Austins baby an tries to get Victoris to call the doctor. She pleads with her to snap out of her delusions but she wont.

While forcing her to take a bath and sending Austin away she trips and hits her head and drowns in the bathtub.

Rain loses consciousness only to awaken in Austins arms and brought ot the hospital where he proposes to her and she has her baby.

I didn’t find the series as exciting as I found the older books. Available from national Library service.

V.C. Andrew books has always been one of my little guilty pleasures!

It took me days to get through this. Not because it was so bad, but I read about three other books in between. The beginning was very slow and if this wasn’t a series I was very eager to reread from my teenage years, I might’ve given up on it. However, I didn’t. I kept reading it. A lot of trauma happened in this book and deaths. However, life and love happened, too. It’s hard to believe that Rain is half black and was raised black when reading this. Some thought processes she has doesn’t make sense to me. Maybe it’s because the author really doesn’t know black people but decided to write about them. There weren’t any cringe moments though so I’ll give it that.
There’s one more book in the series that I won’t be reading until next year but I look forward to the ending of the saga.

Review by M.F. : "This is my favorite book of the series & I loved the passionate love story."

This was the best book in the series so far. It finally had the suspense I was looking for. A character getting killed, another one going crazy, and all of Rain's problems made this a good read.

I really enjoyed this book. It was filled with time-stopping revelations and strange secrets from Rain's past, present, and future.

When Rain falls off a horse, her life has changed forever. When she meets therapist Austin Clarke, she knows that she has found the love of her life. But there is just one thing: Rain gets pregnant. How can one give birth to a child if the one is handicapped?
This book has been my favourite one out the whole series: I really liked how Andrews incorporated aunt Victoria's "alter"ego

This was my second time reading this book. Looking forward to rereading the next two books in this series.

I don't know why I expected these to be any good. The series gets so progressively racist and ableist with both physical and mental disabilities that I wonder if it's even worth putting the effort into the next one, which is blessedly the last one.

I'm going to read the Flowers in the Attic series at some point, which I'm hoping will satisfy my craving for scandalous trash without making me roll my eyes every five seconds and and wince at some other "tragic mulatto" trope the ghost writer decides to whip out every five sentences. I guess maybe my trashy needs have expanded since middle school when I first read the Cutler series, and even then it seemed anachronistic.

I love camp, but not at the expense of good editing (I found several typos, which is becoming a disturbing trend in a number of books I've read lately), and I strongly believe even the filthiest trash can have its redeeming qualities if well done and made with love (see also: John Waters' oeuvre pre-1990s). This series so far just seems to be a desperate grasp at trying to make a buck off the late VC Andrews' name with an "urban" element thrown in to make it seem more modern-ish.

Fortunately, they were like $2 for the entire set at an antique store, which is sadly where most of this work probably belongs. I'll probably read the last one just so I can make fun of it and up my book count for the year--hopefully it will be quick and only slightly more painful.

3rd book in the Novel series - Great story, great suspense..I've never read a book in this short of time. I couldn't put it down. I Can't want to start the 4th book.

Very quick read. This was the last series that was in the old tradition of more than 2 books for the series. Was not what I expected, but in a good way. After reading the first 2 books this one certainly had a twist that was unexpected. I found this series better than the ones that are newer. Of coarse I have not read many of the newer series. Got a little behind on V. C. Andrews reads there for a few years. Book was good, but not great.

loved it rain trys to go on with her life in a wheelchair with the help of her therapist but as they seem to get closer Victoria wants him fired and ruined.when Victoria is in the house alone with rain she starts to act crazy and rain trys to get away from her but being in a wheelchair has put her to a disadvantage.this is the 3rd book in the Hudson series.