On the Savage Side

Arcade and Daffodil are twins born one minute apart. With their fiery red hair and thirst for escape, they form an unbreakable bond nurtured by their grandmother's stories. Together, they retreat to their imaginations and create a world where a patch of grass reveals an archaeologist's dig, the smoke from the local paper mill becomes dust rising from wild horses galloping beneath the ground, and an abandoned 1950s convertible transforms into a time machine that can take them anywhere.
But what the two sisters can't escape are the generational ghosts that haunt their family. Years later, Arcade wrestles with these memories of her life, just as a local woman is discovered drowned in the river. Soon, more bodies are found. While her friends disappear around her, Arcade is forced to reckon with the past while the killer circles doser. Arcade's promise to keep herself and her sister safe becomes increasingly desperate, and the powerful riptide of the savage side becomes more difficult to survive.
Dedicated to women killed in her native Ohio, Tiffany McDaniel has written a moving, fearless elegy for missing women everywhere.