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From the author of the Iron Valley series comes a slow-burn romance in this captivating contemporary novel.
Carnivalesque is the perfect escape—if you can score an invitation and find its secret location. The carnival boasts exhibits like glow-in-the-dark bumper cars, King’s Court speed dating, a pitch-black maze you could get lost in, and thousands of teens—dressed up, in costume, and wearing Mardi Gras masks to protect their outward identities. At Carnivalesque, privacy is paramount. No cell phones. No press. No social media, which makes it the perfect scoop for seventeen-year-old journalist, Mackenzie Davis.
Mackenzie needs this story to get her journalism goals on track. She stalks through the forest to find the carnival thinking one night there and she’ll have everything she needs to make her dreams come true, but she falls in love with the escapism and extravagance of Carnivalesque—that or Kierk, the guy who can get her backstage and knows the answers to all of her questions.
With every exhibit and every flirtation, her pile of lies builds. As she
gets closer to the story and to Kierk, she faces a choice she never
thought her practical, career-focused self would have to make:
her first love or her future? Unless… there is a way she can have both.
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From the author of Above the Fold comes a charming romance in this dreamy contemporary novel.
Budding artist Dinah Zimmerman is recovering from a relationship with the boy next door who happens to be hounding her to get back together. When she visits the famous Carnivalesque one night, she meets Harvey—a smooth talker who asks her to dance. But their dance is interrupted when several of his exes bathe him in milkshakes and douse him with water balloons.
Dinah has little interest in dating yet another bad boy. Nonetheless, her plans are derailed when Harvey offers her exactly what she needs—space from her ex. Wanting to “fake date” Dinah to convince everyone he can be a serious, one-woman guy, Harvey offers to be Dinah’s buffer so that she can focus on her art. He even sweetens the deal by offering her a chance to paint exhibits at the carnival.
As the two work to sell their ruse, Dinah begins to confuse their fake relationship with reality, and when Harvey’s ex—the one who got away—comes back into his life, Dinah has to risk telling Harvey the truth…or letting him go.
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