Many years have passed for the Dollanganger family. Jory has grown up to marry his childhood sweetheart, Melodie, and both have become successful dancers. Corinne has bequeathed Bart the rebuilt Foxworth Hall, which he plans to reopen and make the grandest home in Virginia. Cathy and Chris arrive to live once again, forty years later, in the place where they were hidden so long ago. But the past is not easily left behind, especially when Uncle Joel suddenly arrives. Presumed killed in an avalanche, he recuperated in an Italian monastery and is now installed by Bart as the head butler — but is soon poisoning the mind of his employer. Meanwhile, Jory's life is about to be turned upside down — and tragedy, which has so often shadowed their lives, awaits Cathy and Chris once more...