You're scared. Your health is bad. You're trapped by a control freak. He has you just where he wants you.
All Caroline wanted was to escape her lonely life as a circus fortune teller. Joe Ryder, a medium, found her and charmed her. He mentored her as his apprentice. Now she wants out of his clutches before she disappears—like all his other assistants.
It won't be easy. Joe is intelligent and not easily fooled. His silk-tongued showmanship in conducting séances is legendary. He's also a liar, a cheat and a charlatan. He shares secrets with Caroline that he can't run the risk of her making them public. He will do all in his power to stop her leaving.
She reaches out to the family she lost when her parents abandoned her years before. By the time her illusionist family arrive on the scene, Joe has spirited Caroline away. But all disappearing acts have their key, and the answer lies in her Romani crystal ball.
