"Follows the author on a life-affirming journey of loss and self-discovery through her time on the road with the last traveling American sideshow and her relationship with an adventurous, spirited mother"--Amazon.com.

While on the run from the Queen's Dragons, Dessa rescues a kidnapped prince. But when his father insists on thanking her and her companions, the attention could mean danger.

The thieves are Dessa, a teen acrobat with a traveling show who's seeking her lost brother; Topper, a juggler from a blue, troll-like race; and Fisk, the big purple strongman. Dessa has found a makeshift family in her troupe of entertainers, but she's not thrilled with how they make their money. While she performs, her fellow travelers pick the pockets of those distracted by her high-rope act.

Legendary singer Jamie Redfern performs Hot Poppin' Popcorn, Captain Feathersword amazes as the somersault king, and Wags the daredevil dog does a balancing act while Henry and Dorothy host their own dances. Be dazzled by the gastronomic superhero Foodman and delight in Murray's Guitar Saved the World and How Are We Going to Wake Up Jeff? There's juggling, ribbon twirling, trapeze acts, handstands, wiggly clowns, and 18 of the catchiest songs in the...

"Doctor Fionn Kane is running from a broken heart, one he hopes to mend in small-town Nebraska, far away from his almost-fiancé and his derailed surgical career. It's a simpler life: head down, work hard, and absolutely no romantic relationships. He wants none of the circus he left behind in Boston. But then the Silveria Circus finds him. Motorcycle performer Rose Evans has spent a decade on the road with Silveria, and it suits her just fine, especially...

"The circus has arrived in Durham, Maine. Before weaver Will Rees is able to take in its spectacle, he spots Magistrate Hanson - the man he blames for his family's having to flee Dugard two years earlier. On his journey home he encounters Shaker brothers searching for a girl from their Zion community. Despite women not being allowed inside the circus, Leah had snuck out to visit it. They quickly come across her lifeless body beaten and thrown into...

"The story of Schlitzie's long career--from Coney Island and the Ringling Bros. Circus to small town carnivals and big city sideshows--is one of legend. Today, Schlitzie is most well-known for his appearance in the cult classic Freaks (produced by MGM of all studios in 1932 and directed by Tod Browning, his first feature after the horror classic Dracula), in which all of the sideshow performers were real, not actors. The making of Freaks and Schlitzie's...

Raised in a brothel, then wrested from the only life she knew by her father, so they could join the circus, Edith Piaf spent her teen years on the streets. She is finally "rescued" by a crime figure who gives her career a start and, ultimately, by her international success and final illness. Always frail, sickly, malnourished, and wildly temperamental, she was often on drugs or alcohol and was always in search of true love. Middleweight boxer, Marcel...