Pearl in the Mist
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| Author | V. C. Andrews |
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| Language | English |
| Series | Landry |
| Genre | Horror |
| Publisher | Atria |
Publication date | October 1, 1994 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) & Paperback |
| Pages | 384 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 067175937X Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character |
| Preceded by | Ruby |
| Followed by | All That Glitters |
Pearl in the Mist is the second book in the Landry Family series by author V. C. Andrews. It is told from the point of view of Ruby Landry.
Summary
After the events of Ruby, Ruby Landry and her spiteful yet paralyzed twin Gisselle Dumas are sent to Greenwood School for Girls by their father and stepmother, Pierre and Daphne Dumas.
Ruby isn't accepted by the Greenwood students due to her Cajun background, while Gisselle plots to make sure that Ruby is kicked out as soon as possible. Despite her problems, she makes a friend in blind piano player Louis Turnball and even rekindles her relationship with Beau Andreas. However, Ruby soon finds out that Pierre has died of a heart attack, and the school is threatening to expel her when eyewitness accounts say that she's been having sexual relations with boys in various spots around the campus. As it turns out, she is being framed by Gisselle, whose paralysis is a ruse.
Nonetheless, Ruby leaves Greenwood when she learns that she has become pregnant with Beau's child. Daphne arranges for Ruby to have an abortion, instead she escapes back to her home town of Houma and returns to Paul Tate, her half-brother. He tells Ruby that her Grandperè Jack drowned in the swamps, and Paul offers her a home for her and her baby in a newly built mansion named Cypress Woods.
In the climax, Ruby gives birth to her daughter, Pearl Landry, in a hurricane which blows away many (if not most) of the surrounding homes, in what is described as one of the worst storms in decades. In the end, Ruby is uplifted and believes her future is bright and hopeful.