One day, an outsider, a boy, turned up in Dare City. One day, he started carrying a decapitated head, his best friend's, and calling himself Ripper. Today, an outsider, a girl unlike anyone he's ever seen has sought him out; she claims to just want to see if the rumors are true, but traveled alone in the frigid weather in just a dress and shoes. She distrusts and disdains him, but agrees to go home with him. Two outsiders with their own aims. Predator and prey, who is who?