Beta sees a way out when a stranger arrives, and the owner of the school makes a bet he canât afford to lose . . . but canât possibly win without her.
Playing against the odds, she takes a chance and soon finds herself fighting in a new set of games against opponents unlike any sheâs faced before. Pitted against warriors with abnormal strength and astounding speed, and unsure whoâs friend and whoâs foe, she fights just to stay alive.
But winning in the Circus of Devils might cost her everything.
C. Rene Astle is an author (and avid reader) of fantasy and science fiction novels, as well as a number of short stories.
She gained a love of fiction, fantasy in particular, and a voracious appetite for story literally at her mother's knee, being read The Hobbit and Chronicles of Narnia - because those are the types of stories her mom wanted to read.
From her father, she got an enduring curiosity about the universe, earned shivering in the dark beside a telescope on cold, Canadian winter nights waiting to witness some celestial event.
Now she fits in writing between her day job, gardening and getting out to enjoy supernatural British Columbia.