Closed Circuit

Ruth Peyton is sure she has everything she needs. Her own business, a mentor, a great circle of friends, and Lyric, her lifelong home town. And then, one hot summer day, everything changes. Who are these strangers who have come to Lyric to buy Ruth’s building as the first step in their mysterious plan? Will they control Lyric’s future—and Ruth’s? And now someone from her past is determined to draw Ruth back into a painful relationship she thought she’d put behind her. Can she make peace with the past in time to save her home town from the radical alterations that lie ahead? Or is there nothing left for her but to leave Lyric for good?