Seventeen-year-old Kristin is thrilled when her father's construction company is hired to inspect the Foxworth property for a prospective buyer. The once grand Southern mansion still sparks legends and half-truths about the four innocent Dollanganger children, even all these decades later. Accompanying her dad to the 'forbidden territory,' they find a leather-bound book, its yellowed pages filled with the neat script of Christopher Dollanganger himself.