When Winifred 'Freddie', a troubled teen possessing amazing powers enters her life, Cass, while showing Freddie how to harness her gifts, has a horrifying vision of a family that recently disappeared, and, calling on her circle of friends, discovers that Freddie is linked to the crime.
Dolores Stewart Riccio was born in Boston and grew up in Pembroke, a small New England town on the South Shore of Massachusetts. She currently lives in Duxbury which is located near the town of Plymouth, the setting for her Circle novels.
She began her writing career as a poet (Dolores Stewart), and continues to write poems between other writing projects. In the 80s, she began to write cookbooks (Dolores Riccio) with a health theme, of which Superfoods for Time-Warner is the best known. The success of Superfoods gave her the encouragement to "quit her daytime job" as a greeting card editorial director and enjoy the precarious profession of full-time freelance writer. In the meantime, she also co-authored two volumes of stories about famous haunted houses in the United States--Haunted Houses U.S.A. and More Haunted Houses.
Sometime in the 1990's, she threw out her food files and her ghost files, and turned at last to fiction. Her first novel Spirit was followed by Circle of Five and its sequels, a series of novels that feature five feisty ladies in their middle years who turn their unusual paranormal talents to fighting crime. The latest Circle book (The Seventh Cass Shipton Adventure) is now available on Amazon. The author is presently working on the eighth volume in the Circle series.
