Kelsey Biden learns that her mother, whom she thought was dead, is alive and recently released from prison. Trying to figure it all out, Kelsey goes to visit her mother on her farm in Virginia, where she finds herself in an unfamiliar world of gamblers and horsemen. Here Kelsey meets the gambling and charming Gabe, a professional gambler, and her life rushes in a new direction. The reader learns from the novel “Vicious Circle” about how Kelsey unravels the secrets that came from the past, how her relationship with Gabe changes.