"In 1928, the Bonaventure Circus has become a refuge for many, but Pippa Ripley was rejected from its inner circle as a baby and is no longer content to leave the reason for that rejection unquestioned. When she receives mysterious messages from someone called the "Watchman," she is determined to find him and the connection to her birth. As Pippa's search leads her to a man seeking justice for his murdered sister and evidence that a serial killer...

"As a child, Faith acquired the ability to see when and how people would die--a "gift" she neither wanted nor could get rid of. After foreseeing a family tragedy and being ostracized, Faith learns to control her visions, and returns to perform in her family's traveling carnival. But when an unruly customer attacks her, she has a vision in full view of a crowd. She is banned from the carnival she loves--and loses her only source of income to support...

Things are going wrong at the circus: the tightrope walker has a sprained ankle, the human cannonball is fresh out of gunpowder, and the tigers won't obey their trainer. Nevertheless, the show must go on, and it's up to Clifford to save the day. Clifford dresses up as a clown, fills in for an elephant with a cold, and causes a bit of mischief himself, drinking all the high-dive water. Actress and muppeteer Stephanie D'Abruzzo is no stranger to

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"Hidden within an unusual circus run by a centuries-old Enchanter, Harrow, keeping her true identity and magical ability a secret, finds her destiny in an elemental with no recollection of who he is, forcing her to reveal the secrets from her own dark past to save this dangerous creature."--

Patricia Pig takes her baby, Louella, to the circus and loses her when Louella wanders off to retrieve her new balloon.

"Sixteen-year-old Noa has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier and being forced to give up her baby. She lives above a small rail station, which she cleans in order to earn her keep... When Noa discovers a boxcar containing dozens of Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp, she is reminded of the child that was taken from her. And in a moment that will change the course of her life, she snatches one of the babies...

"Paris, 1925: To enter the Secret Circus is to enter a world of wonder--a world where women weave illusions of magnificent beasts, carousels take you back in time, and trapeze artists float across the sky. Bound to her family's circus, it's the only world Cecile Cabot knows until she meets a charismatic young painter and embarks on a passionate affair that could cost her everything. Virginia, 2004: Lara Barnes is on top of the world, but when her...

"It takes a five-man circus act with a psychic tightrope artist to get in and out of an East European prison safely." --

Little Bear, whose family performs in the Papagini Circus, longsto take part, and one night, through a series of accidents, hebecomes featured in a way he never imagined.

"Here is a dark, passionate tapestry of a young woman's struggle from poverty to wealth . . .of a rebellious heart's tempestuous journey toward love . . . set in the savage contrasts of Georgian England, a time alive with treachery, grandeur and intrigue." --back flap.