Mirai St. Julian is a young woman with a rich and fascinating life. She restores historic carousels, working from a studio in a former roller skating rink. She has never had trouble attracting men. Though black, she spent her first years in the Basque community of Nevada, the adopted child of a single mother. And in later childhood, she was raised by her Aunt Joy in a Catholic Worker house in California. Yet the richness of that life now seems to be turning against her. She finds herself overwhelmed by a carousel project that"s out of control. She learns that the man who dumped her only months before is already married and -- from Mirai"s point of view -- to the worst possible person. She discovers that her mother"s death long ago may not have been an accident. And she suspects that Joy, the only person she trusts completely, may know more about that death than she"s willing to reveal. Shaken by these tremors, all Mirai needs is a real-life earthquake to either send...