If There Be Thorns (3) (Dollanganger) Trabajo de una Trabajadora Social. Now a major Lifetime movie eventBook Three of the Dollanganger series that began with Flowers in the Atticthe novel of forbidden love that captured the worlds imagination and earned V. C. Andrews a fiercely devoted fanbase. They hide the shocking truth to protect their children. But someone who knows their dark secret is watching. Christopher and Cathy have made a loving home for their handsome and talented teenager Jory, their imaginative nine year old Bart, and a sweet baby daughter. Then an elderly woman and her strange butler move in next door. The Old Woman in Black watches from her window, lures lonely Bart inside with cookies and ice cream, and asks him to call her grandmother. Slowly Bart transforms, each visit pushing him closer to the edge of madness and violence, while his anguished parents can only watch. For Cathy and Chris, the horrors of the past have come homeand everything they love may soon be torn from them.