Rose Red and the Seven Elves

About the Book

A Princess in servitude. Rose Red, the younger sister of Snow White, lives with her stepmother the evil Queen. She works, cooks and cleans night and day without reward, but the evil Queen has a beautiful throne Rose Red greatly admires and on which longs to sit—if only for a moment—but is forbidden to do so. The evil Queen also has a longing for majestic objects, including a beautiful royal red robe, which can only be stitched from Rose Red’s heartstrings and dyed by the girl’s young rich blood at midnight on the night of the Blood-Moon after Rose Red has been poisoned by the thorn of the cursed rose. Rose Red escapes only to find seven curious elves living in a life-sized dollhouse. To her surprise and delight she finds out the elves, as slaves once themselves to the Queen, were the tiny craftsmen that constructed the throne. As young Rose Red and the seven elves run for their lives through the Dark Forest, she asks the elves to build her a similar throne. The elves gladly oblige, but instead build for her three other gifts that might just save her life. Will that be enough, or will the evil Queen’s lust for greed be Rose Red’s downfall?

About the Author

Grant Lee Petersen, also known as writer G. L. Strytler, is the author of Xtoriez, a book series for young adults. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, he was raised in Midland, Texas and Rogers, Arkansas, but returned to Utah to attend Snow College and study business management. Grant Lee enjoys playing any and all sports. He also enjoys movies and has been a featured extra in several movies filmed in Utah including High School Musical and The World’s Fastest Indian starring Anthony Hopkins, in which he played Binocular Boy, among many, many others. In 2004 he made national news when he paid for a traffic ticket with 8,200 pennies. The stunt was mentioned on CNN as well as radio shows such as Paul Harvey. In March 2012, Grant appeared on TruTV’s Top 20 Most Shocking Videos, Pranksters Gone Wild 7, in which he plays a funny prank on a former roommate.