The Secret Sand Circle Book Launch

­­­­Join Author, Christina M. Abt and a panel of community leaders
for the launch of Christina’s latest novel.
The Secret Sand Circle.

Friday, November 14, 2025 6-8pm
The Twentieth Century Club
595 Delaware Ave, Buffalo
(Secure off-street parking across from the Club’s Franklin St. Entrance)

EVENT HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:
Light Hors d’oeuvres

A complimentary beverage (beer, wine, pop)

Panel discussion featuring prominent mental health community leaders
hosted by award-winning broadcaster, Kate Welshofer

Announcement of The Secret Sand Circle Benefit Collaboration
supporting Peer-to-Peer Counseling for
crisis first responders, mental health clinicians and caseworkers

Christina’s reading of an excerpt from The Secret Sand Circle

Cake/Coffee/Tea

Cash Bar

PRESALE ONLY*****Event tickets: $50*****PRESALE ONLY
includes a personalized copy of The Secret Sand Circle

Additional books can be purchased for $15 each.

SECRET SAND CIRCLE LAUNCH TICKETS INCLUDING SIGNED BOOK
PRE-SALE ONLY: Price: $50
To add additional Secret Sand Circle Book(s) to your launch order: Price: $15/book.
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BREAKING NEWS!
The Secret Sand Circle Book Launch Presentation will be livestreamed!
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Livestream link/signed book: $25 inc. postage/tax
Livestream link only: $5
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PREORDER A SIGNED BOOK ONLY
$20/COPY (includes shipping and tax.)
Please include name(s) for inscription of book and mailing address.
Books will be mailed November 15th.
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TO PAY FOR A LAUNCH TICKET, A LIVESTREAM LINK OR PREORDER A BOOK BY CHECK:
Click this link: https://www.christinaabt.com/contact and fill out the form.
You will be contacted regarding payment.
In the message note the number of Launch Tickets or books. 
If preordering a book, please include name(s) for inscription and  the mailing address.
Books will be mailed November 15th.

The Secret Sand Circle
Test Reader Review

The Secret Sand Circle is a haunting and evocative journey into the mind of Dr. “Jo” Harkins, a renowned psychologist devoted to guiding survivors of abuse and trauma.

Told in two interwoven timelines of, Now and Then, each chapter reveals advancing storylines of Jo’s patients, told within a mosaic of cruelties, secrets, trauma, and a need for healing. Each one unfolds within the delicate threshold between the observer and the observed.

Lyrical and disquieting, The Secret Sand Circle is a story of memory, erasure, and of the cost of bearing witness to another person’s pain—-all told from a space safe enough to hold it all…
                                                             
                  THE SECRET SAND CIRCLE

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