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What the Morning Brings | #NaNoWriMo2018

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Parts 16
Time 1h 48m

15-year-old Ori is an average small-town boy. Or so he thought, until a strange circus appears in his backyard. Accepting an acrobat's invitation to join the Cirque de Reverie, he is swept up in a whirlwind of wonder. Unbeknownst to him, the circus is not what it seems, and something dark lurks beneath its golden surface.

Before, there are two sisters. When one runs away, the younger girl grapples with the grief and secrets her sister left behind. It is up to her to find a way to save her before it's too late. But in a circus that thrives on magic, mystery, and manipulation, that task might just be monumental.

Freedom comes at a cost, and the price is paid by both friends and foes. Can Ori escape what has been set in the stars, or will he be trapped in the circus' snare forever?
                                                                                     
[ cover by  @scmimi ]
                                                                               
[ achievements: ]
1st in Fantasy in the Grand Dame Awards - 2/28/19
Featured on @_Once_Upon's A Touch of Fairydust reading list! - 1/12/19
Featured on @YA's Stardust reading list! - 1/13/19
2nd Place in Fantasy in the Majestic Awards - 12/18/18
3rd Place in the Heavenly Awards - 1/9/19
Honorable Mention in Fantasy in the Bardic Awards - 12/29/18

[ praise: ] 
"You somehow managed to make me fall in love with all your first chapters. Straight up beautiful writing," @moonshinedeer

"First, your world building is gorgeous and I need you to teach me how you do it. I feel like I'm in whatever early nineteenth, twentieth-century town right beside Ori and Blithe, smelling the popcorn and The Cirque and all that comes with it," - @staymelanated

"Two separate paths, two characters are unique and exquisitely woven into the story with dark magic" - Sevannah_Storm, judge from the Golden Awards 2019All Rights Reserved

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𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 by BirgittVenneri

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𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥

𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐀 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄, a cursed marionette, a useless puppet under the control of the director. Seven years ago the magic of circus carnival entangled her into selling her soul and now she's trapped into a laberinth of misery without any escape. Her only wish- freedom, her destiny- eternal captivity. Until he arrives. 𝐓𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐎𝐑 𝐌𝐀𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐍𝐈𝐍, a twisted soul, a unscrupulous man, with intensions straight out of hell. Just as Selena he fell for the same deception. His only desire- power, his determination- a shattered past. Until she arrives. But the devilish game the circus arranges every year, changes everything. This is a chance for Selenas freedom just as Trevors igniting for revenge. A soul with the price of another. The game is simple yet deadly. Only one can win. But nothing is like it seems. Both are players in a contest that's impossible to prevail. In which their only fate is loss. It's a dance in which illusion and reality, truth and lies, life and death just as love and hate intertwine, banishing Selena and Trevor deeper and deeper into the dangerous secrets of the haunted circus world. ____________ "Welcome ladies and gentlemen, welcome, get your tickets here and enter a magical world full of mystery and games. Let the night with all of its eases begin, till it's sold out to the stars" "If this attraction is so entchanting as they say, can I get a ticket to your heart as well, beautiful?", a deep voice from behind sneaked all the way up into my ear, till attaching into my lost soul, leaving me back with goosebumbs. I turned around and all that I could recognize, was hypnotising me with green. Green like the forest, floated with pumpkin lamps on a rainy autumn day. As all the magic appeared from his eyes and drowned the whole circus in millions of miracles. 𝐕𝐎𝐋𝐔𝐌𝐄 𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐀𝐋 𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐈