Theresa Allocca

When a child arrives at the ER with scars the system is unwilling or unable to heal, Tess Collaretti calls a group of friends to her living room and asks them to do what the town cannot. What begins as a quilting circle turns bluntly tactical: staged interventions, invisible surveillance, and hard-handed confrontations. As they stitch together evidence and courage, they expose corrupt men, salvage broken lives, and build a patchwork justice that both saves and condemns.
But the group lives in the gray zones between law and moral action. When one of their missions unravels into a confrontation with a man who knows their faces, Tess must decide how far she will go to protect her town and what she will risk in the name of safety. By the time the county fair awards ribbons, Milan must decide whether community accountability is a miracle or a threat.

Second Novel in the Circle of Friends Series
Circle of Fire
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Third Novel in the Circle of Friends Series
Circle of Bearings