Teacher, Ivy Hill, finishes the school year as the circus comes to town. She learns it is returning after fifty years, bringing with it a large mystery and is very surprised to find she is involved. On her mother's death bed, she promised to marry before she turned thirty. Even that promise leads back to the circus. An unstable leader of Organized crime has been chased out of Las Vegas and settles in her area. At her dismay, he falls in love with her, putting her quest for answers in jeopardy. Escaping her own murder sets her up with romance and being able to keep the promise made to her mother.