The Circus in Winter is the debut novel/short story collection by American author Cathy Day published in 2004.

2: JENNIE DIXIANNA - or The Secret to the Spin of Death During the winter months the circus retires to Lima.

Boscombe then married Pearly the 'Zulu Queen' and had a son named Gordon, royal prince of the Boela Tribe of African Pinheads.

4: THE CIRCUS HOUSE - or The Prettiest Little Thing in the Whole Goddamn Place Wallace Porter in 1900 hired the Colonel Ford from P. T. Barnum.

Ford's wife wanted to remain in Lima so Wallace agreed that she could live in his old house.

6: THE LONE STAR COWBOY - or Don't Fence Me In In 1957 Stella, her husband Wayne and her twin sons Ray and Ricky moved to Lima to Wallace's old house, with its circus themed murals.

He proposes to her and he decides to join the family Funeral Parlour business in Lima where Laura toys with disappearing to Chicago.

They're Gone Earl Richards is to become the new manager of the KOA Kampgrounds in Lima, but when the gypsies arrive they cause problems...

The novel was adapted into a musical in 2011 by students at Ball State University by Hunter Foster and Beth Turcotte, with lyrics by Ben Clark, and was first performed at the Circus Hall of Fame in Peru, Indiana, and went on to play at Drury Lane Theatre, Chicago.