Alex Cadence was always a light in a world full of darkness. She was a creative force who was coming of age in a town that treated her with kid gloves. After she lost her mother in a car accident, she was determined to create a special life for herself. But a dark force was rolling into the town of Balering, a force that would shake Alex's life to its core. Kranky's Carnivale was just around the corner, and the clowns inside come with a dark set of intentions. Now Alex must reach inside herself and use her past to confront her nightmares head on, before it's too late.
Jason Burke (born 1970) is a British journalist and the author of several non-fiction books. A correspondent covering Africa for The Guardian, he is currently based in Johannesburg, having previously been based in New Delhi as the same paper's South Asia correspondent.