A Circle in the Woods: a novel

In a place where people have been disappearing for years, a little girl gets lost in the woods. Meet the man who saves her life. On a late summer morning in 1958, Phil Stapleton discovers and rescues five-year-old Brittany Duncan after she spends two days lost deep in the Kentucky woods. Two months later, when a tree branch crashes through the rickety trailer where Brittany lives, Phil takes the girl and her mother under his roof. What follows is a decade of mystery, violence, and tragedy, with no escape in sight. A Circle in the Woods is a novel that lulls and charms its reader while quietly drawing a knife.