Margaux and the Vicious Circle

The Margaux Chronicles, Book 1

When aspiring author Margaux Andrews receives a curious acceptance letter from a literary agency that seems too good—and too mysterious—to be true, she’s pulled into a world where the lines between truth, memory, and fiction blur. As she prepares to meet the elusive M. Des Jardins at the famed Algonquin Round Table, Margaux is drawn back into the tangled legacy of her childhood: a family marked by silence, a tragic disappearance, and a shared magical realism they all try to deny.

Set in 1980s New York with flashbacks to 1960s Colorado, Margaux and the Vicious Circle weaves literary history with personal reckoning. It's a novel within a novel that blends themes of identity, trauma, sibling loyalty, and the redemptive power of imagination. At its heart, it’s a story about the cost—and necessity—of telling the truth, even through fiction.

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