Evil lives in a traveling carnival roaming the Depression-era South. But the carnival's newest act\, a peculiar youn g woman with latent magical powers\, may hold the key to defeating it. Her time has come.
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Abandoned by her family\, alone on the wrong
side of the color line with little to call her own\, Eliza Meeks is comin
g to terms with what she does have. It's a gift for communicating with ani
mals. To some\, she's a magical tender. To others\, a she-devil. To a tale
nt prospector\, she's a crowd-drawing oddity. And the Bacchanal Carnival i
s Eliza's ticket out of the swamp trap of Baton Rouge. Among fortune-telle
rs\, carnies\, barkers\, and folks even stranger than herself\, Eliza find
s a new home. But the Bacchanal is no ordinary carnival. An ancient demon
has a home there too. She hides behind an iridescent disguise. She feeds o
n innocent souls. And she's met her match in Eliza\, who's only beginning
to understand the purpose of her own burgeoning powers. Only then can Eliz
a save her friends\, find her family\, and fight the sway of a primordial
demon preying upon the human world. Rolling across a consuming dust bowl l
andscape\, Eliza may have found her destiny.