Honora Blanche Favre had it all: Beauty, Brains, Friends, Family and Riches. Until one day Life slaps her down. Hard. She becomes a pariah, a loser overnight; even her parents are ashamed of her. Napoleon Bonaparte's revolutionary system of education created more than 100 years before Honora was born, makes her into a failure at the tender age of 18. She is powerless to change it. The belle femme is exiled forever from the only thing she has ever worked for - her education and going to a prestigious University, as all her friends are doing. In a panic, She bolts from her family and her life in Paris - escaping to the Normandy countryside. While traveling through Normandy's ancient, spectacular places like le Bec-Hellouin and Mont Saint Michel, Honora is pulled into a cyclone of romance, intrigue, danger and personal achievement. Honora finds something deep inside of herself: courage, self-love and self-determination. She realizes there is a survivor living inside of her. A fighter. A tenacious girl that just won't give up on herself and those she loves. The Circle is complete when a shocking turn of events compels Honora to return to Paris - although no longer a failure, nor a burden, nor a victim. She returns triumphant and independent to face a future that she has never imagined - carrying the promise of a new life inside her, taking charge of her parent's law firm administration and becoming the stalwart of her family, as they face accusations that could destroy everything that the Favres have worked for all their lives.