
At the bus station, she meets a man named Peter Slowik, who guides her to a local women's shelter. Rosie arrives in a Midwestern city, disoriented and afraid.

Once Norman realizes that Rosie is gone, he resolves to hunt her down and kill her. Rosie departs on a bus with their bank card. Rosie realizes that she has passively suffered through Norman's abuse for fourteen years and that if she continues to put up with it, he will eventually kill her. She sees a drop of blood on the sheet that dripped from her nose the night before, when Norman had punched her in the face for spilling iced tea on him. Nine years later, Rosie is making the bed. The subsequent lawsuit and internal affairs investigation has made him even more volatile. He also has a violent temper and has been recently accused of assaulting and raping a black woman named Wendy Yarrow. Rosie considers leaving Norman but dismisses the idea: Norman is a police officer, and is excellent at finding people. In 1985, Rosie Daniels' husband, Norman, beats her while she is four months pregnant, causing her to miscarry. Rosie can feel just how close he's getting. Rose-maddened and on the rampage, Norman is a corrupt cop with a dog's instinct for tracking people. And she takes flight - with his credit card.Īlone in a strange city, Rosie begins to build a new life: she meets Bill Steiner and she finds an odd junk shop painting, 'Rose Madder', which strangely seems to want her as much as she wants it.īut it's hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder. Roused by a single drop of blood, Rosie Daniels wakes up to the chilling realisation that her husband is going to kill her.

Rose Madder is an upcoming film based on the book by Stephen King.
