Strike (The Colony Carnivale, #29)

They say The Colony Carnivale appears without warning—rolling into forgotten towns under blood-red skies, offering laughter, lights, and salvation for the bored and broken. But beneath the painted tents, hides a different sin, each act a different obsession. Lust. Power. Revenge. Fear. The Carnivale feeds on it all—and so do the souls trapped inside..

The games are rigged, the prizes are cursed, and the performers aren’t quite human. So buy your ticket, brave the insanity, and pray the lights go out after you do. Because once you enter, the show owns you.

Emery is eighteen years old, just graduated high school during the summer, is taking a year off and is planning on attending college in New York the following fall.

When Emery steps inside the Colony Carnivale with her boyfriend and four friends she is expecting a normal night filled with fun, prizes and food.

However when she meets twin workers Asher and Cole, at first they look normal on the surface, working the Milk Bottle Toss attraction during the day, but Emery and her friends' night starts to take a darker turn.

Once she wins Briney, a porcelain male doll dressed in a sailor suit with blue gray eyes that match the twins from the Milk Bottle Toss attraction. Strange things begin happening, and Emery and her friends find themselves trapped in rounds of twisted Carnivale games run by the sadistic twins.

Where each game is more unforgiving than the last.

Welcome to The Colony Carnivale—where the fun never dies, it just screams louder.