An impulsive choice                                                                                                        An untimely death                                                                                                            A shattered family.                                                                                                      Can love survive even this?

New York City. 1964.  My daddy made me go. I didn’t want to. He sent me to his brother’s family in New York City for the summer, because things were getting hot in Mississippi. And he wasn’t talking about the weather.

Sheltered, sixteen-year-old Mavis Powell from Mississippi is completely undone when she meets smooth-talking Harris Brown, her older cousin’s best friend. But there’s a chasm between Mavis’ religious family and Harris’ roots in the Harlem clubs.

Outwardly brash and impulsive, Harris runs deeper than most people know. Though he loves Mavis, he makes a choice of conscience that takes him away from her. And she, just as impetuous but much more naïve, follows him.

Their recklessness takes them back to Mississippi during Freedom Summer. Although their motives are pure, the result is tragic. Slammed with rejection by her new family as well as the church, Mavis’ first year with Harris threatens to be her last. What does it take to heal a broken family? How do you save a love that’s pulled so tight it’s ready to snap? The Circle Unbroken is a redeeming testimony to the power of love.

The Circle Unbroken won first place in 2018’s Romance Through the Ages contest in the Modern Day History division.

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