Dark Angel (Casteel Series)
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Dark Angel is a book written by V. C. Andrews in 1986. It is the second book in The Casteel Series.
[edit] Plot summary
After the events of Heaven (the first book in The Casteel Series), Heaven Casteel finds herself in the care and custody of her mother's parents, the wealthy Tony and Jillian Tatterton. There, Heaven dreams of a wonderful new life - of new friends, good schools, beautiful clothes and, most importantly, love. She wishes to make her family name respectable, find her brothers and sisters, and have a family once again.
Conflict with her newfound grandparents soon arises, however. Her grandmother Jillian is vain and selfish, while her step-grandfather, Tony, veers from being dignified and generous to being controlling and domineering. The only person Heaven can talk to is Tony's brother, Troy, who suffers from depression. While Heaven is given everything she wants, fine clothes, a fine education and the support to go to college, she is still unhappy due to the stipulation that Tony made: if Heaven sees her family again, Tony will stop all support to her. Heaven does not try to see her siblings Tom and Fanny, but she does continue to write them letters.
After a time, Troy and Heaven fall in love and plan to marry. Tony is thrilled, but Jillian is troubled. Heaven decides to see her family and lies to Tony about going to New York. Heaven arrives in Washington D.C. and finds Jane and Keith living happily with their adoptive parents. Fanny is living in a boarding home in Tennessee and is apparently poor and may be prostituting herself. Tom is living happily with Luke and Luke's new young wife, Stacy.
When Heaven arrives in West Virginia, she encounters her first love, Logan. When she becomes sick with a fever, Logan nurses her back to health.
Heaven returns to Boston to learn that that Troy is sick. However, before she can see him, Tony and Heaven have a discussion where he reveals that Heaven was conceived when Tony raped her mother. Troy is Heaven's uncle. Heaven still declares her love for Troy, who flees the Tatterton estate after Jillian reveals the truth to him. However, he does tell Heaven to confront Jillian. Once she does, Jillian loses her sanity. Later, Heaven and Tony discover that Troy died as the result of a horse riding accident.
Heaven attends college and graduates. She moves to Winnerrow and lives in the newly renovated cabin of her youth. She becomes a respected teacher, and bleaches her black hair to resemble the silvery blond of her mother.
Heaven attends the carnival owned by Luke Casteel, the man who she grew up believing to be her father. A tiger act goes terribly wrong as Luke is distracted by Heaven, who very much resembles her mother, Leigh. Tom rushes in to save the animal trainer but is killed, while Luke is injured.
Months after Tom's death, their grandfather Toby Casteel dies. Heaven becomes engaged to marry Logan.
