Best friends Anita and Rainie have made countless visits to their home base: an old sycamore
tree and its neighboring lot of stray dogs who have a mysterious ability to communicate with
humans. The girls learn that they are preceded by generations of dog-headed women and
women-headed dogs whose bloodlines knot them together like thread. Anita convinces her best
friend Rainie to become a dog with her tying a collar of red string around each of their necks
to preserve their kinship forever. But when the two girls are separated Anita sinks into her
dreams and lands herself in a coma that only Rainie knows how to rouse her from. As Anita's
body begins to rot her mind straying farther and farther away from the waking world it is up
to Rainie to rebuild her friend's body and keep Anita from being lost forever.* Tasked with
gathering new organs from the mythical landscape of their shared childhood Rainie must return
to the past and ask herself how far she is willing to go to reunite with the girl who has
haunted her and hunted her in equal measure--
