Chapter One -- Family

"What a big heart I have
The better to love you with
Little Red Riding Hood..
Even bad wolves can be good."
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She was an oversheltered, anxious, traumatized nobody with a dreadful secret. Now, she is an oversheltered, anxious, traumatized nobody with two dreadful secrets. Being invited to live with the Rainsworths was a scary prospect in and of itself, but Helen Winchester never anticipated unwittingly thrusting herself into a violent new world that she had only ever thought was a fairy tale. From contracting with a terrifying chain that typically avoids legal contracts in particular to putting up with the teasing of the never-serious Xerxes Break day in and day out, Helen isn't sure she's going to make it to her next birthday.