List for fourteen weeks. Diagnosed with breast cancer in 1986, Andrews hid her condition as long as she could; in December of that year, with 24 million copies of her seven novels in print, she passed away. Within days, Simon and Schuster’s staff received a memo informing them that Andrews had left behind unpublished novels, as well as detailed notes and outlines for more, allowing them to publish books under her name for years to come, starting with a Flowers in the Attic prequel. Anita Diamant reached into her stable of writers and produced Andrew Neiderman, whose novel PIN had found an
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