Carrie is embarrassed by her small stature and failure to grow she continues to feel sorrow over the death of Cory. Cathy, however, still yearns for revenge against her mother whom she blames for all that has ever been wrong in their lives.
Cathy goes to ballet school, first locally, then in New York City. Chris enters a pre-med program and then goes on to medical school. The children do very well under the care of Henny and Paul. Cathy thinks it was probably a miscarriage knowing that she slept with Christopher in the attic, but she does not reveal this and plans to move forward in life and develop her dancing abilities. She learns when she wakes up in a hospital that a D&C was performed on her and that the cause of the bleeding was likely irregular periods, a result of her nearly starving while in the attic. When their first Christmas with Paul arrives, Cathy, performing in a ballet audition, begins to bleed and collapses. At first, the children will not tell them who they really are, but eventually, believing that Paul truly cares about them and might be of help, Cathy tells him what they have been through. Henny (Henrietta) Beech, a mute woman of African-American descent, rescues them, bringing them to the South Carolina home of her employer, forty-year-old Dr. Carrie feels sick on the bus as she is still weak from a poison that killed her twin, Cory. Petals on the Wind picks up the story at that point. At the end of Flowers in the Attic, Cathy, Chris, and Carrie are heading to Florida following their escape from Foxworth Hall.
The narrative takes place from November 1960 through the fall of 1975. Andrews’s novel Petals on the Wind (1980) is the second entry in Andrews’s Dollanganger series, which began with Flowers in the Attic.
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