Preloved Novel - Rose Red

Birthright: The boy came from a different world, a different time. Sam Wendell discovered the wild young orphan in the Soviet Caucasus, and believed him to be one of the mysterious almas - a living Neanderthal child. Wendell is now dead, and his widow Julia has adopted the boy, named him Adam and brought him back to her home in Boston. There she receives the help and support of Maxine, a former colleague of her husband. They are determined to help Adam enjoy the benefits of civilisation, to give this unpredictable, often uncontrollable twelve year old his birthright. Behind them all, manipulating their efforts. is the Foundation, the shadowy organisation that funded Wendell's research and is determined to continue it for its own sinister purposes. The dream shared by Julia and Maxine, which Adam begins to perceive, is shattered, however, when modern intolerance and ancient instincts collide, unleashing a series of increasingly terrifying events.

My Life At Rose Red: At the turn of the twentieth century, Ellen Rimbauer the young bride of Seattle Industrialist John Rimbauer began keeping a remarkable diary. This diary became the secret place where Ellen could confess her anxieties about her new marriage. Express her confusion over her emerging sexuality, and contemplate the nightmare that her life was becoming. The diary not only follows the development of a girl into womanhood, it follows the construction of the Rimbauer mansion - called Rose Red - an enormous home that would be the site of so many horrific and inexplicable tragedies in the year ahead. The diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red is rare document, one that gives us an unusual view of daily life among the aristocracy in the early 1900's. A window into one woman's hidden emotional torment, and a record of the mysterious events at Rose Red that scandalized the society at the time.