Ringmaster by Arden Hart

Twenty years ago, I burned my faith to ash and dragged six brothers out with me.

Now I run the show that rose from those ruins.

The world sees a carnival—bright lights, painted smiles, sin wrapped in glitter and gold.

I see a hunting ground.

Every city we pass hides another Prophet, another ghost of the Sanctum of Ash.

Another chance to make the men who raised us pay.

Then she walks in. Jules.

A journalist with questions that cut, eyes that don’t look away, and a mouth that could ruin me.

She wants the truth about the disappearances that follow my carnival from town to town.

I want her gone. Or beneath me. Or both.

The deeper she digs, the closer she gets to the secrets I buried—and to the monsters that made me.

I can command an audience with a smile. I can make the crowd believe in magic.

But I can’t decide if Jules is my salvation… or my next sin.