Black Rose

It seemed as if the world was a cold, dark foe, closing in on the harmless little seven-year old Mensch, an orphan since birth. Her parents had died in the hospital fire that burnt the whole hospital and its insiders. Only a handful of people lived to tell the tale. She switched from abusive* foster family to another abusive foster family till she couldn't take it any more. That fateful day was Mensch's seventh birthday when she made the ultimate decision that changed her life forever.

Rushed out of the burning hospital just after her birth, Mensch wished that the nurse had left her there. She would have been burnt alive. Burnt to ashes.

Burnt once and for all. But she had lived-- only to burn daily.

When she ran away from home (she didn't know whether to call that place a home), the Black Rose became her asylum. Her refuge.Her last resort. Her last sanctuary.

But most importantly-- it was her first 'home'.

Meet Mensch Strife, for whom the world flipped over when she was only seven. A person who has gone through it all-- beatings, harshness, hatred and child abuse-- but still managed to survive.

The person who lived to tell the tale, tells her own tale.

*This story contains some child abuse*
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is a sad kind of gloomy book but I'll throw some humour here and there.