Teenage Cleopatra takes on the role of amateur detective in 2050!
She’s a fish out of water. No one but her guide Alice knows her true identity. She’s an outcast with her band of misfits in a shifting maze of mystery.
She remembers only fragments: a strange voyage aboard the Ship of Souls, voices drifting through darkness, and a warning that feels older than memory itself. Somewhere, a girl named Etty is waiting for her. Why she matters—and what Cleopatra is meant to say—remains unknown.
Her search pulls her toward the Mummy In Black Festival, an enormous autumn celebration glowing beneath neon lights and cold October skies. Thousands flood the grounds each night for haunted attractions, music, sideshows, and horror spectacles. But beneath the festival’s beauty, something unsettling lingers just out of sight.
A teenage girl dies beneath the Italian swings . . . complicating Cleopatra’s search.
At first it looks like an accident. But whispers begin moving through the festival crowd. Old disappearances resurface. Strange connections begin forming between people who should never have crossed paths. Detectives searching for answers find themselves trapped inside mysteries stretching far deeper than murder.
Darkly poetic, atmospheric, and hauntingly original, Cleopatra Comes To New York is a supernatural mystery that blends dark fantasy, horror, mythology, science fiction, and cosmic wonder into a story about fate, longing, and the terrifying beauty hidden beyond the edges of the known world.
