Julia (Circle of Friends #1)

May the circle be unbroken...

They'd been friends growing up on the small East Coast Island of Harmony - Julia, Lauren and Cathryn, Amber and the others. Now one of them is dead, and Julia Lewis goes home for the first time in seven years.

Julia's grief makes this a bittersweet experience. But coming home is also a chance to revive old memories and reconnect with her circle of old friends. And to fall - hard - for a Boston journalist named Ben Grant who now owns the island's weekly paper.

Still, despite Julia's feelings for Ben, she can't accept his accusations about Amber's death - that it was murder, not suicide, and that Julia's friend, chief of police Charlie Slocum, ran a sloppy investigation.

With his charming smile and awkward questions, Ben's causing all kinds of complications in Harmony's little world. And in Julia's...