Love is a muddle. We can feel alive through love. It may also depress us. Sometimes we search in the wrong areas for it. This book is about passion, risk, and everything in between; it's about yearning, desire, and dreams. The child of Circus Palmer is inside Maggie. Though this might be her last opportunity, she longs for independence. Pia, Circus's ex-wife, is still madly in love with the idea of the jazz musician who played for her late into the night but left years earlier. Koko, Circus's daughter, is caught up in the turmoil of her burgeoning desire and need for the father she hardly knows as she navigates the turbulent teen years.