Julia — Shannon Waverly

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...

CIRCLE OF FRIENDS: May the circle be unbroken...