When Alice and Theo move into a newly renovated house in The Circle, a gated-community of twelve exclusive houses, their new home is everything they've dreamed of. But appearances can be deceptive... Just as Alice is settling in and getting to know her new neighbours, she discovers a devastating, grisly secret. Her new house is infamous; the notorious site of a murder just eighteen months before, when the previous owner was found dead in her bath. Murder victim Nina was a therapist and Alice begins to feel a strong connection with the dead woman, having suffered a tragedy of her own. Alice becomes obsessed with the death of Nina and tries to find out what happened in her house, but no one wants to talk. Her neighbours are keeping secrets and things are not as perfect as they seem in The Circle.