Constance Sayers has a terrific imagination that she shares with the reader in her book, The Ladies of the Secret Circus. This is the story of Lara Barnes who on her wedding day is left alone at the alter. She and Todd have had a long romance which is finally about to culminate in marriage when her fails to show up at the church. Lara does not believe he is gone of his own volition.
Her mother, Audrey is supportive but seems to have her own secrets she is guarding, as she tries to protect her daughter. Ben Archer, the police chief is very supportive and helpful to Lara as she decides to investigate the disappearance of her fiancé .
Tied to this modern day family is the history of a magical circus that only appears to special people in Paris back in the 1925. Sayers paints a beautiful picture of artistic, social cafe scene in Paris at night. With descriptions of the nightlife and the artists who live there and paint the beautiful women.
The Secret Circus is magical and full of illusions. Sometimes places and experiences that are so fantastic that could bring a person to the edge of evil. Could the Circus of such fantastical beauty and magnificence be connected to the world of evil?
So wonderfully presented that the beauty and the grotesque come to life and seem real.
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