MARGAUX ANDREWS, a young writer in Lower Manhattan, has spent years crafting a novel based on her childhood in Colorado-years marked by friendship, silence, and the unexplained disappearance of a neighbor child. Agents dismiss the manuscript as unbelievable, but Margaux knows she's telling the truth as she lived it.

Just as she considers giving up, an unexpected letter arrives from the enigmatic M. Des Jardins Literary Agency, long associated with the famed Vicious Circle. What begins as a stroke of luck becomes a doorway into deeper revelations about her family, her childhood, and the stories she's been taught to forget. As Margaux follows the threads of her novel, she begins to uncover a past far stranger-and more connected to her future-than she ever imagined.

A blend of literary fiction, mystery, and magical realism, Margaux & the Vicious Circle explores how childhood shapes us, what memory makes possible, and the courage it takes to revisit the shadows that formed us.