The Casteel Family Saga
Adapted from V.C. Andrews’s five-book series about an incestuous, twisted family, The Casteel Family Saga premieres July 27th on Lifetime.
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Jason Priestley is the Big Bad Tony Tatterton and directed the third in the series, Fallen Hearts.
Cast: Jason Priestley, Annalise Basso, Julie Benz, Chris William Martin, Chris McNally, Kelly Rutherford, Daphne Zuniga, Lizzie Boys, Keenan Tracey, Jennifer Laporte, Max Lloyd-Jones, Cindy Busby, James Rittinger, Matthew Nelson-Mahood, Jessica Clement, Samantha Coughlan, Christian Convery, Madeline Hirvonen, Johannah Newmarch, Jason Cermak, Michael Karl Richards, Pauline Egan, Ben Sullivan, Liam Hughes, Tom Donadt and David Lewis.
The Casteel Family Saga starts from the viewpoint of Heaven (Annalise Basso), a teen girl whose mother Leigh died during childbirth and who lives in poverty with the-man-she-thinks-is-her-father Luke Casteel Sr. (Chris William Martin)and half-siblings in West Virginia. After her step-mother dies and Luke sells her and her half-siblings to other families, Heaven ends up with Kitty (Julie Benz) and begins an affair with Kitty’s husband (Chris McNally). Later she goes to live with her rich step-grandfather and grandmother, Tony and Jillian Tatterton in Farthinggale Manor in Boston. There she learns that her step grandfather Tony Tatterton (Jason Priestley) raped her mother Leigh as a young girl and is the reason her mother fled Boston.
But before Heaven learns that Tony Tatterton is her real father, she falls in love with and gets engaged to Tony’s brother, Troy. When the big secret is revealed, Troy leaves and seemingly dies so she marries her first love Logan Stonewall from West Virginia. Her biological father Tony Tatterton lures the couple back to Boston. She gives birth to Annie, whose real father is Troy not Logan, which only Heaven knows.
After growing up happily in West Virginia, Annie loses her mother Heaven and the man-she-thought-was-her-father Logan Stonewall in a car crash and goes to live with step great-grandfather Tony Tatterton. Tony terrorizes her but her real father Troy turns out to be alive. Tony dies and Annie makes plans to marry her half-brother Luke.
Lifetime filmed Book 1: Heaven last year.
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And then filmed out of order in Vancouver:, starting with Book 4 and ending with Book 3.
Book 2: Dark Angel, about Heaven Casteel’s life in her rich grandmother and step-grandfather Tony Tatterton’s Boston mansion.
Jason Priestley’s instagram. At Minaty Bay on the road to Squamish.
Book 3: Fallen Hearts directed by Jason Priestley. Heaven and her new husband Logan Stonewall are lured back to Tony Tatterton’s Boston, where the ghosts of the past threaten Heaven’s happiness.
Book 4: Gates of Paradise is about Heaven’s daughter Annie Stonewall who goes to live with her step great Grandfather Tony Tatterton after her parents die in a car crash.
Book 5: Web of Dreams, which is a prequel to Heaven, with Mike Rohl directing. Web of Dreams unlocks the mysteries of the family as Heaven’s mother Leigh escapes Farthingale Manor in Boston after her step-father Tony Tatterton rapes her. She meets and marries Luke Casteel Sr., with baby girl Heaven on the way.
