This series is a prequel to the Stephen King mini-series, Rose Red.

At the turn of the twentieth century, Ellen Rimbauer (Lisa Brenner), the young bride of charming Seattle industrialist John Rimbauer (Steven Brand) began keeping a remarkable diary. This diary became the secret place where Ellen could confess her anxieties about her new marriage, express her confusion over her emerging sexuality, and contemplate the nightmare that her life was becoming. The diary also follows the construction of the Rimbauer mansion, Rose Red, an enormous home that would be the site of so many horrific and inexplicable tragedies in the years ahead. Due in part, so it seems, to a murder that took place during its construction. After Ellen's daughter vanishes, John's philandering ways and violent tendencies aggravate her desperation...