Cathy finishes a performance to find Paul's sister, Amanda, waiting to meet her. Her ballet troupe begins performing in New York City.

Paul tells Cathy the story of his wife, Julia, and how she had drowned herself and their son, Scotty, after Paul confessed to an affair. Over time, Cathy falls in love with Paul and they plan to marry, to Chris's dismay. Determined to live a 'normal' life, Cathy rejects Chris's advances and insists that he must find someone else to love. Carrie continues to feel anguish over Cory's death and is embarrassed by her failure to grow properly and the problems caused by her lack of height, while Cathy and Chris still struggle with their feelings for each other. Though the children thrive under Paul and Henny's care and start fulfilling their dreams (Chris heads to college and then medical school Cathy gets into a local ballet school and then one in New York City), Cathy is still bent on revenge against their mother, knowing she is to blame for everything wrong in their lives. Cathy suspects that the bleeding was actually a miscarriage, the result of her sexual relationship with her brother, Christopher, in the attic however, she does not mention this suspicion, telling herself that it is in the past and all that matters is her ability to dance. At first the children refuse to reveal their identities, but once Cathy is convinced that Paul genuinely cares and might be able to help them, she tells him their story.ĭuring the siblings' first Christmas with Paul, Cathy begins bleeding profusely during a ballet audition and collapses after waking in the hospital, she is told that they had to perform a D&C and that the bleeding was due to irregular periods (due to her near-starvation in the attic). Paul Sheffield of Clairmont, South Carolina. Henrietta 'Henny' Beech, a mute African-American woman, rescues them and takes them to the home of her employer, 40-year-old widower Dr. Still weak from the effects of the poison that killed her twin Cory, Carrie gets sick on the bus. Petals on the Wind picks up immediately where Flowers in the Attic left off: with Cathy, Chris, and Carrie traveling to Florida after escaping Foxworth Hall. In 2014, it was adapted into a Lifetime original movie. The book, like the others in the series, was a number one best-seller in North America in the early 1980s. The timeline takes place from the siblings' successful escape in November 1960 to the fall of 1975. It is the second book in the Dollanganger series.

Petals on the Wind is a novel written by V.

Dollanganger book series