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Jason Hyde returns from the Civil War a changed man — not broken, exactly, but bent in ways he cannot name. When a chance encounter draws him into a counterfeiting ring operating in the remote hollows of the Appalachian South, he tells himself it is only temporary. It never is.

What begins as a wartime story quickly becomes something richer and darker: a portrait of a man navigating a criminal underworld, a fractured community, and his own divided conscience. The war is only the beginning. The real reckoning comes after.

Devereaux renders the Appalachian landscape and its people with an artist's precision: the fog on the ridgeline, the weight of a secret kept too long, the particular silence of a man who knows he has gone too far to turn back.

In the blistering heat of a South Carolina mill town, 1922, secrets fester beneath the cotton dust. When Gertie Taylor — young, outspoken, and yearning for more than domestic duty — witnesses a brutal murder, she's forced to choose between silence and survival… or truth and peril.

Torn between the steady devotion of Henry, a respectable young lawyer, and the dangerous allure of Juda, the enigmatic stepson of the town's most powerful man, Gertie's heart is as conflicted as her conscience. Her defiance ignites scandal, and in exposing lies meant to stay buried, she awakens enemies who would rather see her dead than hear her speak.

Unbroken Circle is a haunting journey into the shadows of Southern Gothic life — where romance and danger entwine, and truth comes at the highest cost.