From your legendary NY Times bestselling writer of Flowers in the Attic and My Sweet Audrina (now Lifetime films) comes the first publication in the Casteel Family series—for fans of Emma Donoghue (Room) and Kay Hooper (Amanda).

Of all the folks in the hill, the Casteel kids are the lowest.

Also the families that get them think so.

Heaven Leigh Casteel could be the prettiest, smartest female in the backwoods, but her cruel dad and weary stepmother work her just like a mule. For the sake about Heaven of her brother Tom and the other little ones, Heaven clings towards the hope that someday she can show the world they are worthy of like and respect.

But when the children’s stepmother may’t take it any more and abandons the family, Heaven’s father hatches a system that will alter her young lifestyle forever. For sale to a unusual couple is just the beginning; ripping away the slim veneer of civilization and learning the adult secrets of the globe around her means Heaven must get away from someone, too—the child she was, to become the woman her mother never had the chance to be.