Melody

Melody V. C. Andrews


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Melody





Melody Logan knew her beautiful mother, Haille, was unhappy in their hardscrabble mining town....



But with her wonderful father's unwavering love, Melody always felt safe -- until a dreadful mine accident ripped her from her family's moorings.



She was still devastated by her father's death when she left West Virginia with Haille to follow her mother's dream of becoming a model or actress. But first they stopped in Cape Cod to visit her father's family at last.



Melody knew only that her grandparents had disowned their son when he married Haille -- just because she was an orphan, her mother said. Yet moments after Melody first laid eyes on dour, Bible-spouting Uncle Jacob, nervous Aunt Sara, and her cousins -- handsome Cary, whose twin, Laura had been killed recently in a sailing accident, and sweet, deaf little May -- Haille announced that Melody was to live with them.



Sleeping in Laura's old room, Melody was awash in a sea of grief and confusion, with only her beloved fiddle to comfort her. Then Cary revealed the truth he's gleaned about her parents -- a sad, shocking story that only puzzled her more. Melody knew nothing of the dark deceptions that would soon surface... the devastating betrayals she would face before she glimpsed the faint, beckoning lights of a safe harbor....



"These people... I don't know them, Mommy, and they don't know me."



"An even better reason to stay with them, Melody. You should get to know them, right?" She waited for the answer she wanted.



"I don't know, maybe. But why didn't we ever speak to them before? Why was Daddy so upset with them?"



"Because they didn't want him to marry me, Melody. I told you. They looked down on me because I was an orphan, adopted.... Now everyone realized how foolish they were, I'm sure. The only way they could make up for their bitterness is to care for you. I only wish you'd see the logic in it and let me leave with a happy heart.



"Won't it be wonderful seeing me in magazines and in the movies? Can you imagine telling your friends that's your mother?" She laughed and twirled her hair. She was beautiful. Maybe she would become a model and be in magazines. If I went into a tantrum and stopped her from going without me, she would blame me for failing. I don't want Mommy to hate me.



I looked back at the house. Archie paced behind the car impatiently. At least I wouldn't have to be with him anymore, I thought. I was the eternal cockeyed optimist, always looking for a rainbow after any storm of sorrow...

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