num_pages: 207
description: ONCE UPON A TIME IS TIMELESSThe year is 1880 and Bertie having just arrived in New York with her family is grateful to be given work as a seamstress in the home of textile tycoon J. P. Wellington. When the Wellington family fortune is threatened Bertie's father boasts that Bertie will save the business that she is so skillful she can practically spin straw into gold.Amazingly in the course of one night Bertie creates exquisite evening gowns--with the help of Ray Stalls a man from her tenement who uses an old spinning wheel to create dresses that are woven with crimson thread and look as though they are spun with real gold. Indebted to Ray Bertie asks how she can repay him. When Ray asks for her firstborn child Bertie agrees never dreaming that he is serious...
language: English
title: The Crimson Thread: A Retelling of Rumpelstiltskin
publisher: Simon Pulse