Once a year the Kannyr Circus comes to London. Known for its extravagant showing of the aerial girls and trained horses, but how the people knew them out of all the others, was the Circus King. When a murder made like an accident crashes the show, Katie must face the fear of asking this mysterious person for his help. Roughly 17,000 words

Twelve-year-old Sarah Lee longs to remain in the golden fields under a starry sky forever, but life has other plans for her. After the bleak spring of 1816 yields meager crops, Sarah's family flees its home in the English countryside to labor at a textile factory in newly industrial London. A factory accident several months later leaves Sarah's father out of work and her family desperate for money. Despite the worries of her older brother Thomas, Sarah disguises herself and ventures into a dangerous new job. Sarah soon learns that life in London is not as simple as it seems. She meets Jamie, a sullen, aggressive boy who helps her adjust to the new conditions. But Jamie has dark secrets of his own, and his reluctance to trust strangers clashes with Sarah's burning curiosity about his past. As the city creeps towards winter, Sarah and her friends stand face-to-face with the horrors of London poverty-rising prices, rampant crime, disease, and hopelessness-and it becomes clear that not everyone will make it out alive. Everyone has a secret, and the consequences can be more devastating than any of them can imagine. "Dark, emotionally gripping, highly researched... very impressive." "Deeply moving and heart-wrenching, it will forever leave a mark on my heart." - anonymous readers WARNINGS: This excerpt contains descriptions of physical injury and child abuse. There is a more detailed content warning in the published book. Sweepings of the Street is now available for purchase! Enjoy the first 4 chapters, then consider getting a paperback or ebook version of the full book! Available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, Kobo, and more, or upon request at your local independent bookstore.

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Hazel has never knew anything but to dance. The stage is her friend, the crowd is her lover. The roses they throw are her only indulgence. But when the curtain drops, Hazel is faced with reality. A man and a teenager, Neal and Henry, who try to seduce her and use her for their own horrid pleasures. When Blake, a circus director, buys Hazel from Henry, her life is switched upside down. Hazel is thrown headlong into an outrageous adventure, and when Henry and Neal decide they're not ready to let go-will she have to risk everything to survive? Will Hazel allow herself to fall in love with a circus that holds more danger than dance? Or will this ballerina finally lose her touch? Find out-in Dancing in the Dark

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You couldn't really remember why you were there but it was too late to turn back. Into the circus you go!

The First Couple attend the funeral of the Queen

"Smoke and mirrors are for cheap tricks and county fairs, Kenna," he says quietly. "The circus... the circus is where magic and mayhem collide." Nineteen-year-old Kenna Oberman leads a sheltered life taking care of her sickly mother until she's gifted a ticket to the Continent's most beloved circus-Cyrus Hardgrove's Traveling Menagerie for the Magically Minded and Magnificently Curious. Unbeknownst to Kenna, Cyrus Hardgrove has big plans for her. As she's swept into the bedazzling world of aerobatics, lion taming, and ventriloquism, Kenna quickly finds herself the star performer of Hardgrove's spectacular show. But is it all just an illusion? When Kenna realizes she's trapped, bound to the Ringmaster by a dangerous spell, she turns to the only person not enamored by her spine-chilling gift: Theo Goodborough. The sword swallower hasn't spoken a single word to her since she joined the traveling carnival, but he might be her only chance at freedom.

You're sent to London to solve a crime... You think it's just one of your average cases... But it's not... Everything changes when you meet Ciel Phantomhive and his demon butler... And not to mention... The circus folk...

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