Life doesn't stop just because you're dead." The circus is coming to Homestead, Iowa. People are going missing, especially teens. Are they all running away to join the show, or could this be the initial volley in a preternatural civil war? Humanity has long believed itself to be the top of the food chain, it's about to discover it's merely carrion. Everything is food for something else, be they vampire, shapeshifter, human or zombie.