Trapeze

How do you trust the ground when all you've known is flight?
In this breathtaking debut, Leigh Ansell has created a compelling, heartbreaking, and truly engaging story
about a young girl used to flying high only to be faced with living life with her two feet firmly on the
ground...
Seventeen-year-old Corey Ryder can't remember a time when she wasn't gliding through the air of Cirque
Mystique's big top. As a trapeze artist in a traveling circus, Corey wakes up every day in a different place,
buzzing for the moment she can suspend gravity during the night's performance.
When the circus pulls into small-town Sherwood, California, everything seems normal - aside from
meeting the exceptionally cute Luke Everett at a local diner. But that night, in the midst of the
performance, tragedy strikes and flames overtake the tent. While Corey narrowly escapes, in the ashes of
the circus pitch lies the only home she's ever known.
Repeatedly thrown out of her comfort zone, Corey must learn how to push toward her future without
forgetting her past, what it means to be a daughter to a mother she's never known, and how to navigate
the confusing magic of first love, even as she performs the high-wire act of being true to who you really
are.