The Star-Crossed Circus
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It's the 1950s. Mina Travers is an orphan on the loose. She ran away from the orphanage a week before this story began, and now the travelling circus have recruited her as horseback rider. She's only twelve. She can't even SIT on a horse, never mind stand on one. And the people here, they're all so... so. All except Jem, that is. Jem is sweet and kind and he seems to actually CARE about Mina. One problem though. The ring master, the man who hates Mina's guts, Mr. Appleby, is Jem's father. And Andrew, the gorgeous stable worker, is kind of... available. It's about to get all star-crossed up in here...
Historical fiction/romance.
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