Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
NAMED TO ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY'S 'MUST LIST' The year is 1922. The carnival is Pontilliar's Spectacular Star Light Miraculum, staked out on the Texas-Louisiana border. One blazing summer night, a mysterious stranger steps onto the midway, lights a cigarette and forever changes the world around him. Tattooed snake charmer Ruby has traveled with her father's carnival for most of her life and, jaded though she is, can't help but be drawn to the tall man in the immaculate black suit who conveniently joins the carnival as a chicken-biting geek. Mercurial and charismatic, Daniel charms everyone he encounters, but his manipulation of Ruby turns complicated when it's no longer clear who's holding all the cards. Daniel is full of secrets, but he hadn't counted on Ruby having a few of her own. When one tragedy after another strikes the carnival--and it becomes clear that Daniel is somehow at the center of calamity--Ruby takes it upon herself to discover the mystery of the shadowy man pulling all the strings. Joined by Hayden, a roughneck-turned-mural-painter wrestling demons of his own, Ruby engages Daniel in a dangerous, eye-opening game in which nothing is as it seems and everything is at stake. Steph Post has firmly estblished herself as one of the most original and captivating voices in contemporary fiction, and with Miraculum she has written an unforgettable novel that is part Southern Gothic, part Noir, part Magical Realism, and all Steph Post.
Synopsis
MIRACULUM was. huge success upon publication in hardcover, currently in its 4th printing with likely more to come. This is the perfect title to have a strong paperback life. Reviewers compared it to the works of Neil Gaiman and Deborah Harkness, who sell massive numbers. MIRACULUM is a riveting, dramatic, richly-detailed historical novel, a combination of WATER FOR ELEPHANTS and Stephen King's REVIVAL. This book is sure to expand upon Steph Post's growing readership, with a novel that will draw in readers of LIGHTWOOD and WALK IN THE FIRE, while also appealing to readers of lush, evocative historical fiction. Steph Post's books have received terrific reviews from trade and consumer outlets and the crime fiction community, and with this novel she has a broke beyond those outlets with more of a mainstream commercial literary appeal. Steph Post will do local events in Florida to support MIRACULUM, as well as festivals and conventions like the Miami and Louisiana Book Festivals. We will heavily promote MIRACULUM on Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads, Instagram, and through advertising in appropriate online and print outlets. The paperback of MIRACULUM will come out right before Steph Post's new hardcover title, HOLDING SMOKE.