Callie is forced to stay with her uncle in Louisiana and all she wants to do is go back home to California and spend the summer with her sister. She sees the Circus of the Dead and wants nothing to do with it. She refuses to believe in any sort of magic or ghosts and keeps trying to explain away things. She also keeps almost dying and one man seems to be there every time. She isn’t sure who she should end up trusting the mysterious man who is only there at the circus or the man everyone tells her not to trust and who they say controls what happens there. She is trying to figure out why people stay here and what is going on but all she keeps trying to do is leave. Can Callie escape with her life or will she permanently join the circus of the dead? And who can she trust with her heart?