All That Glitters (Landry #3) by V. C. Andrews

MY HEART POUNDING, I OPENED THE DOOR AND LET MY TWIN SISTER INTO THE HOUSE....

"Our stepmother would bust a gut if she saw how well you've done for yourself, sear sister," Gisselle said, as she gazed at the grand entry way, my paintings and small statues, the long marble floors and grand stairway....

"Where's Beau's baby?" she demanded.

"Pearl's asleep and no one knows her as Beau's baby here." I said.

"Of course." She smiled with satisfaction. 

"If you've come here to make trouble for us..." 

"Why should I do that? I don't care what you've done although I know you did it just to spite Beau."

"That's not true, Gisselle." 

"Don't you want to hear about him?" she teased. I didn't really. 
"He broke up with his fiancee in Europe, so you see, if you hadn't rushed into this sinful arrangement, you might have still won him," she said with great self-satisfaction. I felt the blood rush into my face so quickly it felt as if it has drained completely out of my legs and I might tumble down the stairs. Then she laughed and put her arm through mine. "But let's not talk of old romances. I do have a lot to tell you, a lot you will enjoy ... and a lot you won't..."  

ALL THAT GLITTERS is the third spellbinding novel in the New V.C. Andrews series that began with Ruby and continued with Pearl in the Mist...the story that brought to light the vile act of treachery that drove innocent young Ruby Landry away from the Dumas mansion in New Orleans. Back in her beloved Louisiana bayou, Ruby hopes against hope that the deep shadows of the Spanish moss will blot out forever her family's tainted legacy, and let her begin anew...

Living again in a humble shack, Ruby is determined to make a secure and happy home for her precious infant daughter, Pearl. Aided by the thoughtful gifts and warm encouragement of Paul Tate - her first love, whom she was forced to abandon - she ekes out a living selling her handicrafts. Paul has become a man of unbelievable wealth, and when he whisks her into his grand house, complete with servants, an inspiring artist's studio for Ruby, and a sparkling nursery for Pearl, it seems their future is assured. As mistress of Cypress Woods, Ruby can forget her horrid past, even the shocking reason she and Paul must wed in a secret ceremony and remain husband and wife in name alone.

But the thick, expensive walls of Cypress Woods cannot shut out the endless hum of the oil rigs that produce Paul's fortune - or the terrible memories that have woven their strands over the bayou and cast a dark web over her destiny. Every cold glance of Paul's possessive mother, Gladys, reminds Ruby of the secret she must keep to give Pearl a loving father. And her venomous twin sister, Gisselle, arrives to taunt her with news of Beau Andreas, the true father Pearl has never met, and the only man Ruby will ever long for with all her body and soul...

Desperate to find the complete, fulfilling life she craves, Ruby makes the only choice her heart can bear. But the precarious new existence she must build away from her beloved bayou is a flimsy shanty of hope that the first flood washes away. Only when the storm exposes the very blackest evils of the past will she glimpse the rainbow's fragile promise, a morning of sunshine and laughter with a family of her own...

Genres: YA 16+ - Horror - Romance - Gothic - Drama - Chick Lit - Mystery - Thriller
Condition: Very good
Published: 1995 by Pocket Books 
Pages: 344
ISBN: 0671875744
Weight: 585g