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Family is not always about blood. It's the people willing to hold your hand when you need it the most. This is the lesson Samia-Al-Sayyid has learnt in her thirty-three years of existence. At thirteen years her uncle raped her for the first time. At sixteen she discovered she was expecting her uncle's child. At seventeen she fled her home in Iraqi for the U.S to escape her family from stoning her. Sixteen years later she has made a good life for her and her grown son in the US, and her friends consider her family. Her estranged brother shows up at her door step and uses her son to destroy her life and that of her new family. With everything lost, she is forced to flee back to Iraq where she confront her past. Will she make peace with her past? Can she get forgiveness for the damage caused to her new family? Full Circle is contemporary fiction novel that tells a tale of friendship, family, and hope. It explores the devastation of loss, the great capacity of forgiveness and the lengths our loved ones will go to protect us.