Circle of Darkness

By: Phyllis M. Newman

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Louisiana, 1933. The Great Depression has dashed future opportunities for Sonja Shivera, a plucky young woman with no family, no money, and a tragic past that haunts her present. She luckily finds employment as a physical aide and housekeeper for Mrs. Stone, a cranky old woman, but unfortunately, the work is emotionally and financially unrewarding. Their unhappy relationship gets even darker when they vacation at a fading antebellum inn near Baton Rouge on the banks of a lake known as False River. At Moorcroft Inn, the terror begins. Sonja crosses paths with a mysterious couple, Freddie Marsh and Lydia Grey, and an exotic beauty named Anya Cambion. Through them, she is drawn into a web of crime that has continued since the Civil War: crop damage, savaged animals, and missing girls. As Sonja is pulled deeper into the mystery surrounding an abandoned plantation, a nocturnal garden, and a magical labyrinth, she ponders another enigma. Who is the mysterious young man who drifts out of the woods, and what secrets will he tell?