Characters Introduced
- Alicia Foxworth: Garland′s second wife, stepmother to Malcolm, and mother of Christopher and Corrine. When first introduced, she was nineteen and pregnant. She is later raped by Malcolm and Olivia locked her in the same attic the Dollanganger children were locked in while she was pregnant with Corrine. She later dies of breast cancer.
- Garland Foxworth: Father of Malcolm and Christopher, ex-husband of Corinne, and husband of Alicia. He dies of a heart attack on his son Christopher′s third birthday, after fighting with his son Malcolm over Alicia.
- Malcolm "Mal" Neal Foxworth, Jr.: Older brother of Joel, nephew of Christopher, and paternal half-brother of Corrine. He was usually referred to as "Mal" so he could be told apart from his father. He dies in a motorcycling accident. He was mentioned by Corrine in Flowers in the Attic.
- Joel Joseph Foxworth: Younger brother of Mal. He is treated with disdain by his father, who considers him a "sissy." Joel is a talented musician, and later joins an orchestra. Joel is presumed dead in an avalanche and his body was never found. A man claiming he is Joel Foxworth appears in Seeds of Yesterday but he behaves like John Amos Jackson. (He may have been a fraud and the cousin that John predicted in If There Be Thorns would stand behind him).
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