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The Spa Guy, The Candle Girl, and the Forever Fair
Paperback
Series: The Forever Fair, Book 1
Publisher: Toley Press
Published: Feb 15 2026
Pages: 92
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.22 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Every summer, the Tri-County Summer Fair rolls into a dusty edge-of-nowhere town with its squealing rides, questionable food, and livestock that smell like they own the place. This year, Jesse Calder arrives with fifteen hot tubs, a borrowed trailer, and the sinking feeling that his soul quietly clocked out somewhere between spa number nine and spa number ten.
His booth is wedged between a taxidermy tent full of nightmare animals and a turkey-leg vendor with a flamethrower problem. The power keeps blowing, the llama across the way is staring at him like it knows his secrets, and the same pig in a pink ribbon keeps charging through his display like chaos on four legs. The fair should just be exhausting.
Instead, it gets strange.
Announcements on the PA are just a little too specific. The mime keeps appearing where he shouldn't. A kid with cotton candy and no parents drifts through like a ghost with a snack budget. And in the barns and shadows of the fairgrounds, some of the animals seem just a little too aware.
Then Wren walks into his booth and everything tilts.
Meet Wren-kooky, odd, beautiful, and maybe dangerous. She sells candles with names like Why Did I Sign Up For This Again and Last Year's Mistakes, trades scents for food, and moves through the fair like she's part of whatever runs it. Perky, unsettling, and impossible to ignore, she's chaos in a sundress, and Jesse can't tell if she's saving him from the fair or delivering him to it.
With the help and harassment of Morgan, a brutally competent bathroom remodeler with a clipboard and no patience, Jesse is pulled deeper into a world where the fair might be more permanent than it looks, and where belonging can be as frightening as being lost.
Forever Fair is a story about strange nights, stubborn hope, and the mysterious girl at the heart of a summer fair that may never really pack up and leave.
Step inside.
The fair is open.
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