For 17-year-old Rhine Ellery a daring escape from a suffocating polygamous marriage is only the beginning... Running away brings Rhine & Gabriel right into a trap in the form of a twisted carnival whose ringmistress keeps watch over a menagerie of girls. Just as Rhine uncovers what plans await her her fortune turns again. With Gabriel at her side Rhine travels through an environment as grim as the one she left a year ago
- surroundings that mirror her own feelings of fear & hopelessness. The two are determined to get to Manhattan to relative safety with Rhine's twin brother Rowan. But the road there is long & perilous
- & in a world where young women only live to age twenty & young men die at twenty-five time is precious. Worse still they can't seem to elude Rhine's father-in-law Vaughn who is determined to bring Rhine back to the mansion...by any means necessary. In the sequel to Lauren De Stefano's harrowing Wither Rhine must decide if freedom is worth the price
- now that she has more to lose than ever.