Chapter 62 The Ringmaster's Obsession Ch1

• The first rule of the circus was simple: Don’t show up unless you have nowhere else to go.
• She did.
• Rain slicked the dirt road leading to the outskirts of the traveling carnival—a feral place of smoke, rusted iron, and howling music that never quite faded into silence. Her boots were soaked, her coat clung to her like a second skin, and every step screamed of exhaustion. She was starving. Broke. And not entirely innocent.