Circle of Death — Helen Arvonen

Madness and murder lurk in the shadow of the old house, waiting for the frightened girl trapped in an evil web.

The circular window had been their secret passageway when they were children. Would it now be large enough to admit an adult…murderer?

When Linda Meredith returned to Treston to reopen the old Meredith House, she slid back into her old circle of friends as if she had never been away. Even Ian Hewitt and Jere Berthune, who had pulled her pigtails when she was nine, were still around to pay her court. Nothing had changed…

And then three people died. Someone had changed; one of them was a murderer, and Linda's return set off a blaze of evil that would not burn itself out until she herself was destroyed.

One of the circle was a murderer. Ian? Jere? Both wanted Linda -- but one wanted Meredith House too -- badly enough to kill for it…