The Girl in Smoke

Evelyn Ashmoor grows up amid a oppressive household, believed to be broken and unworthy, until she mysteriously vanishes and later reemerges transformed. Now part of a traveling circus that celebrates the outcasts, she finds strength, purpose, and a new sense of family among the strange and the marginalized. As she faces her past in her hometown, she must confront difficult truths and decide how far she's willing to go to reclaim her identity, in a story marked by darkness, magic, and resilience.