Edith Claire Beaumont
Last scion of a cursed and wealthy house. At 15 Edith fell in with a seemingly appropriate boy from another wealthy family; a boy with a dark and exciting secret.
Soon Edith found herself a member of an esoteric order. Worshiping at the alters of strange beings that wait beyond the stars to reclaim the world of men. Drugs were taken, rituals and ceremonies performed.
Three years later, Miss Edith Claire Beaumont finds herself alive and panhandling on the streets of New York City; dressed in ragged clothing. Though her memories are a jumble, she tries to contact her family, only to find them all gone; her family murdered three years ago, the night Edith went missing. Her erstwhile boyfriend Jefferson Payne was convicted of the murder of Edith, her family, as well as murder of four other families; including his own-- before being captured and hanged to death.
With the help of her lawyers Edith regains her fortune, and sensational magazine pieces are written, then a best selling True Crime novel, casting Edith a brave lone survivor who saw such horrors the night of her family's murder that she developed amnesia. She becomes both an oddity and a society darling, but she wonders; what really happened to her that night?