Fallen Hearts

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Fallen Hearts is a 1988 book by V. C. Andrews. It is the third book in his The Casteel Series.

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Fallen Hearts continues the Casteel series with Heaven, now fully grown and living in Winnerow, working as an elementary school teacher. She began dating her High School sweetheart, Logan Stonewall, again, shortly after returning from Farthingale Manor, after Troy’s subsequent death.

Logan eventually proposes to Heaven, and she feels compelled to invite her biological father, Tony Tatterton to the wedding. Thanks to Logan’s correspondence with Tony, they end up having the wedding at Farthingale Manor. It doesn’t take long for Tony to convince Logan into doing business at Tatterton Toys and starting up a factory in Winnerow. Tony also subdues Logan and Heaven into residing at Farthingale Manor. Heaven agrees, much to her dismay.

Logan spends most of his time in Winnerow, setting up and building the new Tatterton factory. While he is away, Heaven begins exploring once condemned parts of Farthingale Manor. During one of her exploits, Heaven discovers her uncle and former lover, Troy, still alive and residing in the cottage behind Tony’s home. In a night of forbidden love, the cohabitate one last time before Troy leaves Farthingale Manor for good. Heaven feels guilty about her one night with Troy but soon discovers her husband shares a similar indiscretion.

Heaven and Logan’s unfaithfulness to one another perpetuate a cycle of shame and guilt culminated by Tony’s own indiscretion with Heaven’s mother.

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