Circus Hearts 1: All The Little Bones
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Last published Mon, Jul 23, 2018
A teenage trapeze artist and an apprentice strongman on the run from a terrible crime...
Seventeen-year-old Sorsha Neary's life is changed in one night when she defends herself behind the vans of her family circus troupe. Now Sorsha and apprentice strongman Colm Mackay are travelling south, to evade the fallout and escape the long arm of the law. All they have in their favour is talent, an old promise, and slim acquaintance with the crew members and performers of their new home, Klatsch's Karnival. But the question for Sorsha and Colm isn't if the police will catch up with them, but when...
Dark YA romance, with a criminal twist - Circus Hearts: Step. Right. Up.
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