The Rope-maker Saga II – The House on the Red Road

A TWO-PART SAGA PUBLISHED ONLY IN E-BOOK FORMAT. In a story full of suspense, humour, sadness and mysterious folk magic, we follow the further dramatic fate of a rope-making family. The “modern” twentieth century has even reached the remote, wooded highlands of the Křivoklát region; how will the youngest son, Francek, cope with it? Will he manage to win the energetic Kačenka as his wife, build his dream house in a nearby town and overcome the dark curse of his ancestors? Fate plays mercilessly with him, but through sheer force of will, he finally manages to carve out his own small island of happiness, even as the Great Depression of the 1930s breaks out and the very existence of his craft hangs by a thread…