The girl knows details about the couple she could not and should not know and starts an unnatural mind game, which goes far beyond rationality and should finally end up bloody.

The story follows Rose, a precocious German 17 year old, as her mother brings her from Germany to live with her grandmother in America. Although she is happy to see her grandmother, Rose hates her ...

Blood was dropping along his back ... spare a thought for the passengers of The Red Riding Hood. For more on this history see Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed, Inside Indian Indenture.