Erin Morgenstern

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Two starcrossed magicians engage in a deadly game of cunning in the spellbinding novel that captured the world’s imagination. • “A book that stops you in your tracks,…tears you open and leaves you gasping. The Night Circus welcomes all visitors.”—The Globe and Mail

The circus arrives at night, without warning. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within nocturnal black-and-white-striped tents awaits an experience where one can get lost in a maze of clouds, meander through a lush garden made of ice, stand awestruck as a tattooed contortionist folds herself into a tiny glass box, and gaze in wonder at an illusionist performing impossible feats of magic. Welcome to Le Cirque des Rêves.

Beyond the smoke and mirrors, however, a fierce competition is underway—a contest between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood to compete in “a game,” in which each must use their powers of illusion to best the other. Unbeknownst to them, this game is a duel to the death, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will.