num_pages: 432
description: Delia smiles at the shadow only she seesSomething slams into her. The lyra whirls like a half-dollar spinning on its edge.My mother is thrown backward.And she falls. Growing up in the Cinzio Traveling Players Company Genevieve Flannery is accustomed to a life most teenagers could never imagine: daily workouts of extravagant acrobatics; an extended family of clowns; wild animals for pets; and her mother Delia whose mind has always been tortured by visionsbut whose love Geni never questions. In a world of performers who astonish and amaze on a daily basis Delias ghostly hallucinations never seemed all that strange . . . until the evening Geni and her mother are performing an aerial routine theyve done hundreds of times and Delia falls to her death. That night a dark curtain in Genis life opens. Everything has changed. Still reeling from the tragedy the Cinzio Traveling Players are also adjusting to the circuss new owner: a generous mysterious man whose connection to the circusGeni suspectshas a dark and dangerous history. And suddenly Geni is stumbling into a new reality of her own her life interrupted daily by the terrors only Delia used to be able to see. As the visions around her grow stronger Geni isnt sure who she can trust. Even worse shes starting to question whether she can trust her own mind. 
language: English
title: Sleight
publisher: Sky Pony