Roused by a single drop of blood, Rosie Daniels wakes up to the chilling
realisation that her husband is going to kill her. And she takes flight - with
his credit card. Alone 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. But it's hard for Rosie not
to keep looking over her shoulder. Rose-maddened and on the rampage, Norman is a
corrupt cop with a dog's instinct for tracking people. And he's getting close.
Rosie can feel