Prologue - Chapter 4 Summary

"Red Lily: In the Garden Trilogy" by Christopher McDougall is the the story of a ghost that haunts a house until it is avenged.

In the Prologue, it's January of 1893 in Memphis. A woman who was once beautiful and clever is now destitute, desperate and demented. She was the mistress of a powerful man, and her life was filled with riches, servants and fabulous friends. People once envied her — a thrilling feeling for the daughter of a housemaid. Things changed.

She has a son and at first she doesn't want him, but her feelings change. He becomes the only thing she loves more than she loves herself. She looks forward to his birth, and she doesn't mind the pain of delivery since she knows it is followed by joy. The woman is told that she delivered a girl...