Beasts of Carnaval

When night descends,el Carnaval de Bestias rises. They come chasing paradise… Within the shores of Isla Bestiaguests from around the world discover a utopia of ever-changing performancessumptuous feasts and beautiful monsters. Many enterbut few ever leave–the wine is simply too sweetthe music too fine and the revelry endless. Sof├¡aa freedwoman from a nearby colonized islandcares little for this revelry. Born an enslaved mestiza on a tobacco plantationshe has neither wealth nor titleonly a scholarly pragmatism and a hunger for answers. She travels to el Carnaval de Bestias in search of her twin brotherwho disappeared five years ago. There’s a world of wonder waiting for her on the shores of this legendary islandone wherein conquerors profit from Sofia’s ancestral lands and her people’s labor. But surrounded by her former enslaversshe finds something familiar in the performances–whispers of the island’s native tonguemusic and stories from her Taike’ri ancestors…a culture long hidden in the shadowsthrust into the light. As the nights passher mind begins unravelingdrowning in the unnaturalalmost sentient thrall of Carnaval. And the sense that someone is watching her grows. To find her brother and break freeSofia must peel back the glamorous curtain and face those behind Carnavalbefore she too loses herself to the island…