Lonely from all the attention Jory and Cindy are receiving, Bart befriends the new elderly next door neighbor, who invites him over for cookies and ice cream and encourages him to call her "Grandmother." Jory eventually goes next door as well to see whom Bart keeps visiting, only to have the old lady tell him that she is actually his grandmother. Initially against it, Chris comes to accept Cindy, and Jory does as well, but Bart is very upset and resentful. She longs to have a girl, as well as a child that is hers and Christopher's. Unable to have more children, Cathy adopts Cindy, the two-year-old daughter of one of her former dance students who was killed in an accident. Cathy is a loving mother to her sons, but shows some favoritism towards Jory. Cathy and Chris have a passionate and very loving relationship, described by Bart who has accidentally witnessed encounters between them. To hide their history, they tell the boys and other people that Chris was Paul's younger brother. He also has congenital analgesia and cannot feel pain as a result, putting him at serious risk of injury or death by infection.īy now, Cathy and Chris live together as husband and wife. Bart spends his time in his own world of pretend-often covering bad things that he does with fantasies he creates. Jory is a handsome, talented fourteen-year-old boy who wants to follow his mother Cathy in her career in the ballet, while nine-year old Bart, who sees himself as plain and clumsy, feels inferior to his brother.
The book is narrated by two half-brothers, Jory and Bart Sheffield. A Lifetime movie of the same name premiered on April 5, 2015. It is the third book in the Dollanganger series. If There Be Thorns is a novel by Virginia C.
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