Condition: Used, Great. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Light rubbing wear on the dust cover and spine. No folded pages, no notes, no underlines or markings on the pages.

Details: Heaven (Casteel Book #1), by V.C. Andrews

Pages: 308

Published: 1985

In the hill country of West Virginia, life is hard, but it is the only life young Heaven Leigh Casteel has ever known. Through the frigid winter nights, when the wind blows mercilessly through the cracks in the cabin floor, Heaven, huddled in an old patched quilt, dreams of college--and of her beautiful, frail mother, who died in childbirth at the age of 14. She determines to someday go to college and to find her mother's family, Boston Brahmins who never learned their daughter's fate. Meanwhile, she must help her step- mother, Sarah, feed and care for the four other children, for her Pa is a no-good moonshiner who beats and then neglects his family. Heaven seeks and finds refuge in her schoolbooks; in Tom, her beloved half brother and soulmate, and in sweet little Keith and "Our Jane, " the youngest Cas- teel children. Then Sarah, treated too shabbily for too long by her mean-tem- pered husband, leaves the cabin for good,