The Unrivalled Spangles
- ISBN-10
- 1416915036
- ISBN-13
- 9781416915034
- Category
- Circus
- Pages
- 219
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Karen Wallace
Description
Longing to give up the nineteenth-century English circus life she was born into, sixteen-year-old Ellen Spangle secretly prepares to be a governess and is courted by a wealthy young man until two tragedies lead her to reevaluate her plans.
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