Eighteen-year-old Moira Mitchell grew up in the shadows of Vegass stage lights while her fathers career as a magician soared. More than anything, Moira wants to be a magician too, but her father is dead set against her pursuing magic. When an invitation to join the Cirque American mistakenly falls into Moiras possession, she takes action. Instead of giving the highly coveted invitation to its intended recipient, Raleigh, her fathers handsome and worldly former apprentice, Moira takes off to join the Cirque. If she can perform alongside its world-famous acts, she knows shell be able to convince her dad that magic is her future. But when Moira arrives, things take on an intensity she cant control as her stage magic suddenly feels likereal magic. To further distract her, Raleigh shows up none too pleased at Moiras presence, all while the Cirques cocky and intriguing knife thrower, Dez, seems to have it out for her. As tensions mount and Moiras abilities come into question, she must decide whats real and whats an illusion. If she doesnt sort it out in time, she may forever remain a girl in the shadows.

 

 

This book is part of a book series called Cirque American .

There are 380 pages in this book.

It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.

This book was published in 2016 by Amazon Publishing .

Gwenda Bond is the author of the young adult novels Girl on a Wire, Blackwood, and The Woken Gods. She has also written for Publishers Weekly and the Los Angeles Times, among other publications, and just might have been inspired to get a journalism degree by her childhood love of Lois Lane. She has an MFA in Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and lives in a hundred-year-old house in Lexington, Kentucky, with her husband, author Christopher Rowe, and their menagerie. Visit her online at gwendabond. com or @gwenda on Twitter.