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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: — The Girl in the Red Smock
Chapter 3: — The Spark and the Trench
Chapter 4: — A Future Made of Bullets
Chapter 5: — The Dreamweaver and the Wagons
Chapter 6: — The Man Who Commands
Chapter 7: — When the King Pole Breaks
Chapter 8: — Bernard Falls
Chapter 9: — The Bomb in the Ring
Chapter 10: — See You Down the Road
Description
In 1926, Rin—Windy Van Hooten’s fierce ringmaster—runs a ramshackle traveling circus of “Sparks,” people with strange gifts who bring wonder to towns that fear them. Rin has built a home on rails with her wife Odette, a healer-aerialist, and Mauve, a singer who can read time like a book. But the past Rin fled is not finished with her: the Circus King, a charismatic abuser who can bend minds, resurfaces and begins hunting the circus.
When the trio looks ahead to understand the threat, they glimpse a future war so vast it swallows their friends, their art, and the world itself. They try to change history with small ripples, then with desperate leaps—but the future keeps snapping back. As the Circus King escalates from intimidation to murder, Rin’s carefully-built sanctuary becomes a battleground of trauma, love, and responsibility. The only way forward may be accepting what cannot be stopped—and saving who can be saved.
Who Should Listen
- Listeners who love found-family fantasy with big emotions, queer romance, and a “circus of magic misfits” setting.
- Fans of time-travel stories where changing the future has real costs and moral consequences.
- Anyone wanting a villain-driven narrative about surviving abuse and reclaiming identity, wrapped in cinematic spectacle.