Full Circle

by Cindy Rush

Two months ago, Roxie Whitson left a tragedy of her making behind in Derry, Tennessee and has spent her summer in a sinner’s purgatory–guilt, punishment, and the path to atonement.


Through the journal she’s kept, and her confessions in counseling, Roxie is now ready to end her self-exile from Derry.


Cole, the boy she all but adopted, is turning twenty-one and the celebration is calling her back. She’s eager to see him again, but that means seeing Caleb, too; the man she loves, who once loved her but, through Roxie’s mistake, no longer remembers. The long weekend in Derry ends without Caleb recalling their history, but when she sends him the journal, his own quest for answers begins.

367 pages, ebook

First published July 5, 2012

About the author

I wrote my first book, Broken Road, after thinking about a single idea for 20 years. In March 2010, I began writing the story and the characters took over from there. It was the most incredible experience for me to take dictation while the characters wrote the story.

I had decided there would be a single novel, but the characters were constantly invading my thoughts until I told them I would kill them all in an explosion if they didn't leave me alone....They called my bluff. I finished the sequel, Full Circle, in June 2012.

Flash forward to the pandemic in 2020. I had not written anything in eight years but felt the pull to completely overhaul the first novel, Broken Road. The slash and trash included the title, and now that first novel is titled Paths We Walk.

While doing revisions, a third story in the series began to take shape. I finished The Path Home in May 2021.