Laughter. "Her stepfather was right, then." I heard the voice in the background say, most clearly. "He called and said we might be hearing from her with some cock-and-bull story. Shock from the accident, he said." The man came back on the line: "Well, we'll look into it, Miss Whelan. Now you just calm yourself and get a lot of rest, you hear?: " He hung up and left me standing there listening to a dead line...I wanted to scream. But Alice Whelan isn't imagining the horrors that she finds on Falcon Island, home of her retired movie star mother, Diana Hamilton, and her sixth husband, Leland Braddock. Who's the mysterious girl named Sarah who's locked away in the mansion tower? What connection does the captive have with the elaborate greenhouse that Leland and his brother Justin are maintaining in the nearby woods? And what strange and unholy experiments are the two men conducting with their...FATAL FLOWERS? A novel of riveting horror and suspense by a master storyteller.