Melody (novel)

Melody is a 1996 novel by V. C. Andrews. It is the first of the five in her Logan series.

Plot summary

Melody Logan is pretty young girl living with her parents Chester and Hailee in the coal-mining town of Sewell in Monongalia County, West Virginia. In spite of the poverty she has a happy childhood in a trailer home which she shared with her parents.Her world is shattered however, after her father dies in a tragic coal mine accident.Her beautiful mother seems to be enjoying her new found freedom.

Melody is forced to leave her trailer home one night with her mother and her boyfriend Archie Marlin and live with her father's estranged family in fishing town of Cape Cod after her mother abandons her to pursue a modelling career.Melody is confused and overwhelmed with mixed feelings as she is made to feel unwelcome by her uncle Jacob, her grandparents and her cousin Cary and the constant pressure she feels from her aunt Sara who expects Melody to replace her dead daughter, Cary's twin Laura in every possible way.Melody's only source of joy is her little deaf cousin May.

Soon Melody starts to uncover the deceits and lies and the hidden skeletons in the Logan closet and her life changes forever.Abandoned by her mother and finding out her father was not her real father and she starts to feel like a true orphan.Her parents' scandalous past, her mother's selfishness and the Logan family's deep hatred for her parents drive her further away and she tries to get back to Sewell, the only home she ever knew.

Her plan doesnot go well and she is forced to return home with Cary who saves her from a helpless situation.Melody finally makes peace with the Logan family and her inheritance but vows to find her real father.Amidst all this she finds her love,her distant cousin Cary, as she realizes that their love is not so forbidden anymore, since she is not really a Logan.