The Circle

The Circle

Author: Maggie Sunseri

Genre: Dark Romantic Comedy / Contemporary Romance / Kink Romance

Book Rating: ⭐ 9/10

Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ 5/5

Description

Nova Harding only wants to rescue her best friend from a bizarre rich-people sex cult. Falling for the mysterious man infiltrating it alongside her was definitely not part of the plan.

For seven years, Nova has been chasing her dream of becoming a successful indie romance author in New York City. Then her best friend and roommate, Lorelei, suddenly moves out to be with her latest toxic boyfriend—and apparently joins The Circle, an exclusive secret society operating inside a deconsecrated Gothic church.

Think wealthy elites, crypto bros, spiritual gurus, kink, and enough red flags to fill Manhattan.

Determined not to abandon her best friend, Nova follows a trail of mysterious social media ads and infiltrates The Circle herself. But entering its seductive world of power, secrets, glamour, and forbidden desires forces Nova to confront pieces of herself she'd rather keep buried.

Then she meets Wes.

Ten years older, tattooed, witty, and frustratingly impossible to read, Wes claims he's infiltrating The Circle too. He offers to protect Nova while they uncover what's really happening, insisting they'll help each other and eventually walk away as friends.

Except there's absolutely nothing friendly about the way Wes looks at her.

As attraction turns into something darker and more consuming, Nova must decide whether Wes is truly the ally she desperately needs—or another dangerous man hiding behind The Circle's secrets.

Because in a world built around desire and deception, trusting the wrong person could cost Nova far more than her heart.

Darkly funny, kinky, mysterious, and deliciously chaotic, The Circle combines romantic suspense with a slow-burning age-gap romance and an exclusive masked society where everyone seems to be hiding something.

Tropes / Mood

Dark Rom-Com • Secret Kink Society • Age Gap • Gen Z × Millennial • Slow Burn • Dom/Sub • BDSM • Possessive MMC • Obsessive MMC • Tattooed MMC • Indie Romance Author FMC • Secret Society • Masked Society • Infiltration • Forbidden Desires • Found Family • Banter • Mystery & Suspense • NYC Setting • Gothic Vibes • High Spice