by The circus he grew up in is the only world Angus Forrester ever knew since the tragic death of his parents leaving him orphan. Even though he has travelled almost every corner of the North American continent, it has become a small world to him. Not much better than the cages the animals are kept in between the shows.
When a girl stumbles into his life on Long Island, young and beautiful and privileged, just about to finish high school and start college, Angus questions his life, asking himself if there is a different world to discover, and leaves behind the travelling home he loved for the woman he idealizes.
But no change ever comes without sacrifice. And the stakes are even higher in the shadows of the skyscrapers of New York City, as Angus is soon to learn that the path to the top always begins down in the gutter for a man like him…
