After her mother dies in a fire, Cassie Blake moves in with her grandmother in the beautiful small town of Chance Harbor, Washington. As Cassie gets to know her high school classmates, including sweet-natured Diana and her boyfriend Adam, brooding loner Nick, mean-girl Faye and her sidekick Melissa, strange and frightening things begin to happen.�

They are all descended from powerful witches, and they’ve been waiting for Cassie to join them and complete a new generation of the Secret Circle.�What Cassie and the others don’t yet know is that darker powers are at play, powers that might be linked to the adults in the town – and that Cassie’s mother’s death might not have been an accident.