Harboring romantic notions about golden-age Hollywood film stars, thirty-one-year-old Philadelphia caf̈еe manager Cornelia Brown embarks on a too-good-to-be-true relationship with the debonair Martin Grace.

"The Circle Trilogy begins with an epic tale that breaks down the boundaries between reality and the otherworldly, while forging together the passions of the men and women caught in a battle for the fate of humanity ... In the last days of high summer, with lightning striking blue in a black sky, the sorcerer stood on a high cliff overlooking the raging sea ... Belting out his grief into the storm, Hoyt Mac Cionaoith rails against the evil that has...

Six years. That was how long it had been since Myron played superhero. In six years he hadn't thrown a punch. He hadn't held a gun. He hadn't threatened or been threatened. He hadn't called his friend Win, still the scariest man he knew, to back him up or get him out of trouble. In the past six years, none of his clients had been murdered, a real positive for his agenting business.

George Hall is an unobtrusive man. A little distant, perhaps, a little cautious, not quite at ease with the emotional demands of fatherhood or of manly bonhomie. “The secret of contentment, George felt, lay in ignoring many things completely.” Some things in life can’t be ignored, however: his tempestuous daughter Katie’s deeply inappropriate boyfriend Ray, for instance, or the sudden appearance of a red circular rash on his...

Oscar, an overweight Dominican from a New Jersey ghetto, dreams of becoming a writer and finding love, but Fuku, the curse has haunted his family for generations, may well prevent him from attaining his desires.