When a little girl is found brutally murdered, the local detective is in over his head. Leia Bines from the FBI is called in to help find the murderer. At the same time, seven-year-old Naya Hastings is having horrifying nightmares, which in turn sets off a series of alarming events in Newbury Connecticut. These events bring together a group of individuals with little in in common short of finding a murderer, and preserving the innocence of the children of Newbury.
Little does child psychiatrist Dr. Peter Gram realize the turn his life and beliefs will take, as he becomes involved with Naya. His only goal is to find a solution to her somnambulism, which almost leads to her climbing over a second story railing during one of her episodes. What he finds is strange and almost impossible to believe. Naya appears to be communicating with the murdered little girl during her sleeping episodes. The perceptiveness of the hand-drawn pictures she draws from her dreams, as well as their accuracy, puts Peter and Naya in the sights of a cold blooded killer.
Will the cumulative information and the strange yet terrifying drawings by a child lead Leila and Peter to the killer before he can kill again?
With A Circle of Souls, Preetham Grandhi has written a horrifying yet hope filled book, and filled it with a cast of well written, real and extremely likable characters.
Dr. Gram, assigned to Naya when she is brought into the hospital, is kind and extremely attuned to children. He talks to them on a level they respond to and gains their trust. He is a workaholic and follows up on the background of Naya on his time off, and while in the beginning he does not believe what Naya is telling him, he is able to listen to her and keep the communication channel open by just paying attention. As pieces start coming together and he gets pulled more into the story, he moves from a person of trust to a sort of hero.
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