Anemone Hollister was never meant to be a jester. She was a quiet, ordinary girl-until a forced marriage turned her life into a cage, and a brick to the face turned her death into a joke. Now she wakes up in another world, face covered and heart still aching, inside the twisted tents of the Cirque du Crevé-Cœur-a blood-soaked carnival of eternal performance where survival is the final act. To leave, she must survive three full years without dying. If she fails, she resets to the beginning of the year. If she fails in the final year... she stays forever. Her partner in suffering? Noive-a stitched-together body formed from two enemies who died the same day as her. They have no neck, a floating head, and just one rule: don't fall apart. The first year is the hardest. The circus feeds on fear. The Ringmaster watches everything. And the audience? They're hungry.
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