spiraltears
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In the shadows of postwar America, the Betherly sisters are raised inside a dreamlike Victorian household hidden within Gary, Indiana. Sheltered by their interracial parents, Alice Wonder Betherly and Vincent Princeville, the girls grow up surrounded by etiquette, flower gardens, tea parties, candlelight, and soft jazz while the outside world festers with racism, religious repression, obsession, and violence. Their towering lantern-lit treehouse becomes both sanctuary and symbol of a family built in secrecy.
But the Jackson family watches from afar.
What begins as fascination slowly mutates into generational fixation as love, religion, possession, fame, and blood become hopelessly tangled together across decades. Children inherit obsessions from their parents. Marriage becomes ownership. Devotion becomes violence. And within the glamorous rise of the Jackson dynasty, the Betherly sisters find themselves trapped inside a family curse disguised as love.
From the 1940s through modern day, The Betherly Tree follows a haunting lineage of obsession, murder, cult-like loyalty, and inherited desire where nobody truly lets go of what they believe belongs to them.
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