Now Cathy, Chris, and the twins wait in their cramped and helpless world, stirred by adult dreams, adult desires, served a meager sustenance by an angry, superstitious grandmother who knows that the Devil works in dark and devious ways. Both sons are named after their fathers and are thankfully not biologically Chris' (because of the whole, you know, Cathy and Chris actually being brother and sister thing). But the brutal days swelled into agonizing years. Bart's father was Bart Winslow - Corinne's husband that Cathy seduced in order to get revenge on her mother (he died in the fire at Foxworth Hall) - and Bart, with his dark hair, is a loner. As shown in the previous Lifetime film, Petals on the Wind, Jory's father was the abusive and manipulative ballet dancer Julian (who died in a car accident), but miraculously Jory is a well-adjusted and normal teenager. If There Be Thorns follows the adult Cathy and Chris living in incestuous domestic bliss (don't worry, there is still some unsettling attic sex in the movie) with Cathy's sons - teenager Jory and 12-year-old Bart. 2014 that Lifetime said Seeds of Yesterday would be the last film about the family.

But even though there are five books, Variety wrote in Oct. Lifetime is giving us both of the movie versions of the third and fourth books, with If There Be Thorns premiering on Saturday, April 5, and Seeds of Yesterday premiering on Saturday, April 12. If There Be Thorns is the third in the series and it's followed by Seeds of Yesterday. Andrews' Dollanganger series, which all started with the evil grandmother locking her grandchildren away in the attic.

Lifetime is premiering another movie about the incestuous blonde-haired Dollanganger family, so is If There Be Thorns the last book in the series? Turns out, there are actually five books in V.C. The twisted tale of Flowers in the Attic has haunted me since I was a young child and saw the gothic horror novels on my mom's bookshelf.

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