Hidden Jewel, V.C. Andrews
Hidden Jewel, V.C. Andrews
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Hidden Jewel

Author: V.C. Andrews

Series: Landry

Narrator: Jennifer Jill Araya

Unabridged: 12 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/10/2020


Synopsis

The classic Landry series continues with this thrilling and spellbinding novel following Ruby Landry’s daughter as she tries to blossom even amidst the dark family secrets she worries will one day overwhelm her life.

Hidden Jewel is the fourth thrilling novel in the V.C. Andrews Landry series. Following All That Glitters, the spellbinding story of Ruby Landry's daring struggle to find a happy life with Beau Andreas and to protect their precious daughter. Sheltered from sorrow, innocent young Pearl thrives in the sunshine of a loving home...except for the haunting nightmares of her earliest years, and the dark family secrets she worries will one day shadow her destiny...

Raised in a New Orleans mansion filled with kindness and laughter, Pearl dreams of becoming a doctor. With all the finest families wishing her well, her high school graduation party is almost as festive as Mardi Gras itself. But still, she fears that she will never know the essence of romantic passion, or her family’s buried secrets. Yet her summer job in an elegant old hospital is fascinating...and an experienced intern is eager to share his friendship with her.

But the sultry Louisiana heat cannot dispel her family’s sinful legacy, the snakelike treachery of a man who threatens Pearl’s innocence, or an awful portent of disaster. After a cruel accident befalls one of Pearl’s twin brothers, the bayou that seized him beckons to Ruby who flees, tormented, back to her Cajun roots. Pearl’s faith in her mother abides, but she cannot hold back her tears when her other brother falls deathly ill, and her father retreats into his own bourbon-soaked world.

Pearl’s dreams of success swirl away with the hurricane winds, and she journeys to the swamps in search of her mother and the shocking truths of her heritage. In the warm embrace of a gentle Cajun man, she discovers a blessed refuge. But, until the storm clouds clear, Pearl cannot savor the springtime sweetness that always, always seems beyond tomorrow...

About V.C. Andrews

One of the most popular authors of all time, V.C. Andrews has been a bestselling phenomenon since the publication of Flowers in the Attic, first in the renowned Dollanganger family series, which includes Petals on the WindIf There Be ThornsSeeds of Yesterday, and Garden of Shadows. The family saga continues with Christopher’s Diary: Secrets of FoxworthChristopher’s Diary: Echoes of Dollanganger, and Secret Brother, as well as Beneath the AtticOut of the Attic, and Shadows of Foxworth as part of the fortieth anniversary celebration. There are more than ninety V.C. Andrews novels, which have sold over 107 million copies worldwide and have been translated into more than twenty-five foreign languages. Andrews’s life story is told in The Woman Beyond the Attic. Join the conversation about the world of V.C. Andrews at Facebook.com/OfficialVCAndrews.


Reviews

Goodreads review by M.M. Strawberry on March 04, 2023

It's nice that Neiderman didn't kill off a parent like he did in Midnight Whispers or Gates of Paradise, but a death still rocks the family nonetheless as Ruby loses one of her three children and goes off the deep end and Pearl has to go hunt her down. I read this as a teenager and now, looking back......more

Goodreads review by Redfox5 on October 11, 2013

First the errors. Ruby made a big deal about giving Pearl her luckly dime (No idea why as it did nothing to help Ruby the last 3 books), but correct me if I'm wrong....Didn't Ruby put that dime around Gisselle's ankle when she was in a coma? and then never visit her again? So how did she get that di......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on August 31, 2011

Another case of a good series gone boring the longer it goes on. VC Andrews was very popular in her time, but the first books in each of the series was really great, the second books were treats that answered questions brought up by the first, but by the time the 4-5 books came along, it simply beca......more

Goodreads review by Ashley W on September 07, 2021

This book, I gotta say, was a tad boring. I thought there was going to be a bunch of dirty laundry bringing the family down or the past coming back on Ruby. Which it did, sort of. I definitely didn't think it was going to be Buster who tried to screw things up for Pearl. I think she spent too much t......more

Goodreads review by Kim on June 04, 2009

This was a good book. I liked the storyline, but I have to admit, it dragged on a bit with Pearl looking in the bayou for her mother. The storyline was good, but at some point made little sense. Also, I found an error in the book. When Pearl meets Jack, he doesn't know what to call her, (Pearl, Ms.......more