V. C. Andrews

Cleo Virginia Andrews, better known as V. C. Andrews or Virginia C. Andrews, was one of the most popular American novelists of the twentieth century. Andrews's novels combine Gothic horror and family saga, revolving around family secrets and forbidden love (frequently involving themes of horrific events, and sometimes including a rags-to-riches story). Her best-known novel is the bestseller FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC (1979), a tale of four children smuggled into the attic of their wealthy estranged pious grandmother, and held prisoner there by their mother.