The Midnight Circus

The circus came on Tuesday. No trucks. No noise. No warning.

One morning the old Hargrove field — empty for thirty years — held five massive tents of black and crimson canvas, their amber lights burning at dawn with no power source in sight. By midnight, three teenagers walked through the gates.

By Wednesday morning, only the circus remained.

Sixteen-year-old Maya Calloway saw the tents first. She smelled them before she saw them — popcorn, burnt sugar, and something underneath it all that was ancient and sweet and deeply wrong. She ran. But her friends didn't listen. And now the lights are pulsing on the horizon like a heartbeat, her grandfather is whispering warnings with terror in his eyes, and Maya is the only one left who knows something is very, very wrong with The Midnight Circus.

"Lock your window. And don't look at the lights. Don't let them see you looking."

This Book Is For You If You Love

• Slow-burn supernatural suspense that gets under your skin
• Small-town secrets and things that shouldn't exist
• YA horror with real emotional stakes
• Something Wicked This Way Comes · The Night Circus · Stranger Things

Book Details

• Format: Paperback / Hardcover / Kindle eBook
• Pages: 108
• Author: Roy Searls
• Publisher: Velquill Press

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