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Landry Series

This gripping family saga delves into the dark secrets and betrayals that haunt generations of an intertwined lineage. Follow protagonists as they navigate ill-fated destinies, forbidden love, and shocking revelations that threaten their very existence. The series is steeped in psychological suspense and emotional depth, weaving past and present as characters seek truth and redemption amidst turbulent circumstances.

Ruby
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Landry Series - 3: All That Glitters
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Ruby

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  1. Ruby

    • 438 pages
    • 16 hours of reading

    One of the most popular storytellers of all time, V.C. Andrews (Flowers in the Attic, My Sweet Audrina) layers psychological suspense with sheer terror in this provocative first book of the Landry Family series—soon to be a Lifetime movie! An innocent bayou girl is lost to New Orleans in this provocative novel by one of the most popular storytellers of all time. The only family Ruby Landry has ever known are her loving guardian Grandmere Catherine, a Cajun spiritual healer, and her drunken grandpere, Jack. Grateful for what she has, Ruby’s life is filled with hope and promise, especially when her attraction to handsome Paul Tate blossoms into a wonderful love affair. But when Paul’s wealthy parents forbid him to associate with a “lowly” Landry girl from the bayou and her grandmere dies, Ruby harnesses her pain into her dream of becoming a great painter. Stumbling upon a faded photograph of her father leads to revelations of a shocking blackmail scheme. Left to find answers on her own, Ruby hunts for her father leads to his massive mansion in New Orleans. Subjected to his world of lies, torment, and madness, Ruby clings to her memories of Paul, knowing that only true love might save her now.

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    4.5

  2. Dunkle Verheißung

    Ruby lebt seit über einem Jahr bei der Familie Dumas und erlebt die Pracht des Familienanwesens sowie die Freude väterlicher Liebe, die sie zuvor nicht kannte. Doch das wahre Glück in ihrem neuen Zuhause ist ebenso flüchtig wie der Nebel. Ruby muss sich vor ihrer Stiefmutter Daphne in Acht nehmen, die sie ständig erniedrigt und sich über ihre cajunische Erziehung lustig macht. Auch Rubys Bemühungen, sich mit ihrer verwöhnten Schwester Gisselle anzufreunden – besonders nach dem Autounfall, der Gisselle an den Rollstuhl fesselt – stoßen auf Bitterkeit und Falschheit. Die idyllische Greenwood-Schule, eine exklusive Mädchenschule, die die Schwestern auf den Wunsch ihres Vaters besuchen, scheint Ruby einen Ausweg aus Daphnes Einfluss und die Möglichkeit, sich Gisselle zu nähern, zu bieten. Doch ein Mädchen wie Ruby ist in Greenwood nicht willkommen. Die strenge Direktorin Mrs. Ironwood, mit Daphnes stiller Unterstützung, macht ihr das Leben zur Hölle. Trost findet Ruby in geheimen Treffen mit Beau Andreas, die nicht ohne Folgen bleiben. Als bekannt wird, dass Ruby schwanger ist, wird sie von der Schule verwiesen und kehrt in ihre Heimatbucht zurück...

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    4.4

  3. Landry Series - 3: All That Glitters

    • 344 pages
    • 13 hours of reading

    ACE 0671873199 (ISBN13: 9780671873196) Driven from the Dumas Mansion back to her beloved bayou, Ruby's only hope is that fate will 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. Paul Tate -- her first love, whom she was forced to abandon -- is at her side once more, now a man of dazzling wealth. When he whisks her into his grand house, it seems their future is assured. As mistress of Cypress Woods, Ruby can forget 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 terrible memories that have woven their fabric over her destiny, or the cold eyes of Paul's mother, Gladys, reminding Ruby of the secret she must keep to give Pearl a loving father. Then 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 builds a precarious new existence, 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.... --back cover

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    4.5

  4. Ruby. Verborgen juweel

    • 267 pages
    • 10 hours of reading

    Pentalogie: Rubínová zář, Perla v mlze, Falešný třpyt, Utajený drahokam, Matné zlato. Další románová pentalogie, v níž komplikované rodinné vztahy přinášejí nečekané i tragické zvraty událostí. Pearl, dítě, o něž musela vlastní matka bojovat v absurdním soudním sporu, prožila s milujícími rodiči a bratry nádherné dětství a dospěla v okouzlující mladou dámu. Jako premiantka třídy skončila střední školu a má jasnou představu o své budoucnosti. Touží stát se dobrou a úspěšnou lékařkou. Opojný pocit ze společného štěstí, lásky a sounáležitosti naruší stín ponuré minulosti. Tragická nehoda, při níž umírá jeden z bratrů, poznamená životní osudy ostatních členů rodiny. Pearlina matka prchá do zátoky, kde hledá pomoc a rozhřešení. Otec se uzavírá do alkoholem nasáklého světa a Pearl se stává tou vyvolenou, která je schopná bojovat s fatální sudbou. V touze zachránit druhého bratra odjíždí do zátoky, aby vyhledala matku a přivedla ji k bratrově posteli. Po počátečním marném pátrání je Pearl odměněna a nachází útočiště v náručí cajunského muže.

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    4.3

  5. Ruby

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    • 263 pages
    • 10 hours of reading

    Growing up in her beloved swamp, Gabriel is supremely happy, despite the ever-widening rift between her Mama and her conniving, whiskey-drinking Daddy. Her classmates tease her, calling her "La Femme Au Naturel," the Nature Girl, because she seems more interested in poling her pirogue through the canals than she is in romance. But Gabriel nurtures her own secret dreams. Then, days before her high school graduation, rich cannery owner Octavious Tate surprises her in a secluded pond and shatters her innocence. Pregnant and desolate, wishing to spare her dear Mama the scandal, Gabriel agrees to a shocking plan that will allow Octavious's frigid wife Gladys to claim the baby as her own and will net Gabriel's furious Daddy a huge payoff. Hiding in a tiny abandoned playroom in the Tate mansion, Gabriel is miserable. Her only visitor is Mama, whose mission as a Traiteur, a Cajun healer, gives her an excuse to treat Gladys Tate's "pregnancy." But nothing is more wrenching than the moment Gladys takes baby Paul away forever. Returning home to the swamp, Gabriel drifts in a world of twilight gloom, brightened only by chance glimpses of her son. But as Jack Landry's reputation as a swamp guide grows, a hunting party brings handsome, gentle Creole millionaire Pierre Dumas to the bayou. Falling desperately in love, Gabriel will not heed the voice warning that their joy may bring her more grief than she can bear....

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    4.0