See the girl in red, tamer of wolves. Watch the piglets juggle sticks and bricks and straw. Take a treat from the tastiest house.
Come one, come any to the dazzling paths of a fairy-tale circus that…wants to steal your soul?
So is the warning Princess Delaria receives from her mother on the eve of Grimmfay’s opening—a warning she dismisses as yet another ridiculous rule from a queen who fears her own shadow. Delaria knows Grimmfay is magic, and she knows that magic is for her. So when her wish on a star to attend the circus comes true, Delaria goes, no questions asked. Because, as everyone knows, wishes made on a star have power.
But Grimmfay has power too—power that will literally bring down the sky to keep the hidden magic coursing through Delaria’s blood.
For her mother was right. This circus does steal souls. And she should know. She was one of its strongest sorceresses, once upon a time.
Unable to set foot within the circus’s bounds and risk becoming the greatest threat to her daughter’s freedom, Delaria’s mother is forced to wait out Grimmfay’s long night while enemies and allies traverse its paths, each seeking the princess for reasons of their own.
And beneath it all, a Master, shrouded in shadow, moves all the pieces into play. After all, he has waited twelve years. What is a bit longer?
