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2000s: Two little girls were abducted ten years ago from one of the grand houses on the Mississippi..
Arrowood
What you need to know before your trail
Arrowood is the grandest of historical houses lining the Mississippi. It has its own stories and ghostly presence: it’s where two small twin girls were abducted ten years ago…
Now, Arden has returned to her childhood home determined to establish what really happened to her sisters that traumatic summer.
But the house and the surrounding town hold their secrets close – and the truth, when Arden finds it, is more devastating than she ever could have imagined.
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Keokuk
“I rolled down the window and breathed the Keokuk air, a distinct mix of earthy floodplain and factory exhaust. The Mississippi lay to my right, and even thought I couldn’t yet see it beyond the fields, I could sense it there, deep and constant.”
“A hundred years before, when riverboat trade thrived on the Mississippi, Keokuk had been hailed as the next Chicago, at one point boating an opera house, a medical college, and a major league baseball team.”
“What remained as Keokuk faded, was a mix of grandeur and decay: crumbling turn-of-the-century architecture, a sprawling canopy of old trees that had begun to lose their limbs, broad streets and walkways that had fallen into disrepair.”
The house of Arrowood is of course fictional but was inspired the many old and ornate houses now museums in the town.
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A) Iowa - Keokuk - The Mississippi River
E) Iowa - Keokuk - Arrowood?
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Arrowood
Destination: Keokuk Author/Guide: Laura McHugh Departure Time: 2000s, 1990s
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