Eliza has always been able to talk with animals. Well, not talk, but at least communicate feelings and ideas. Unfortunately, her eagerness to communicate usually leads to the death of the animal, and Eliza has never figured out why this happens. Abandoned by her family, Eliza ends up living in a small rented room in a boarding house, doing odd cleaning jobs in the 1930s Baton Rouge. Born on the wrong side of the color line, Eliza has no prospects and no hope of ever reuniting with her younger sister ... until she is recruited by the Bacchanal Carnival, where she meets other African-American folks with strange and wonderful talents.
Tasked with figuring out a talent for the carnival, Eliza works with some of the artists and begins to grasp the limits of her power. But others also have strange powers, including the enigmatic resident of the red caravan. And everywhere the carnival goes, people die or disappear.
As the carnival travels through the South, encountering racism, Eliza continues to search for her sister. But finding her will put her in even more danger as the evil that dwells within the carnival is also searching for the growing threat that is Eliza ...
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