This book follows about a year in the lives of Jory and Bart, Cathy's two sons by Julian and Bart Winslow, respectively. Jory has carried on his mother and father's tradition of dance, and shows a great amount of talent in ballet. Bart, on the other hand, has an extremely dark side to his personality, and spends most of his time pretending. An old lady who wears all black moves in next door, and Bart finds a couple of new friends in her household. Over time, Bart begins to act even more strange as he tries to personify his great-grandfather. Eventually, it's revealed that the old lady is, in fact, Chris and Cathy's mother, and Jory and Bart's grandmother. I don't want to reveal too much of the rest of the book, so I'll stop with the description there. I promise, it doesn't take that long to figure out who the old lady in black is.

If Andrews was trying to put in a mysterious aspect surrounding the old lady that moved in next door, she failed miserably. From Bart's first visit next door, it is glaringly obvious who the old lady is. This book also switches narratives, with one chapter coming from Bart's point of view, and the next from Jory's. I found that quite interesting just because of the large difference between Bart and Jory's personalities. The first time I read this, I remember it being quite a relief that Jory did not inherit his father's unreasonable jealousy and psychosis. Julian, for me, was one of the most distasteful characters in the series, and I was actually kind of glad when he died and Cathy was set free of him.

Again, not fine literature, but entertaining, nonetheless. On to the next book!