Will she be strong enough to succeed? Or the will demon drain the souls of the innocent forever? Now it’s Elizas time to grasp her destiny and try to save all she knows and loves from this demon. Hiding in a disguise and feeding on their souls. This is finally her way out of dirty jobs and the South.Īs she sinks into the routine of Carnival life and lives among the other carnival folk, a demon is slithering her way through the innocent souls of the townsfolk. He offers her a spot as an oddity and she accepts.

The traveling carnival known as Bacchanal comes into town and the owner spots Eliza and her special gift. She has the gift to communicate with animals and it comes in handy as she learns to survive on her own. Her powers frighten some and others welcome her gift. It offered so much darkness and it was a book that I knew I needed to read.ĭepression-era in the sweltering heat of Louisiana, a young woman is left behind by her family only with a photograph and an amulet. An evil surrounding a traveling carnival, an abandoned child with weird powers, and a devilish pact only she can break. It called to me and captured me in it’s clutches.

This book whispered to me like something evil and creepy lurking in the dark. Rolling across a consuming dust bowl landscape, Eliza may have found her destiny. Only then can Eliza save her friends, find her family, and fight the sway of a primordial demon preying upon the human world. And she’s met her match in Eliza, who’s only beginning to understand the purpose of her own burgeoning powers. But the Bacchanal is no ordinary carnival. And the Bacchanal Carnival is Eliza’s ticket out of the swamp trap of Baton Rouge.Īmong fortune-tellers, carnies, barkers, and folks even stranger than herself, Eliza finds a new home. To a talent prospector, she’s a crowd-drawing oddity. It’s a gift for communicating with animals. But the carnival’s newest act, a peculiar young woman with latent magical powers, may hold the key to defeating it. Her time has come.Ībandoned by her family, alone on the wrong side of the color line with little to call her own, Eliza Meeks is coming to terms with what she does have.

Evil lives in a traveling carnival roaming the Depression-era South.

Bacchanal by veronica g henry