The CW joins L.J. Smith’s Secret Circle

From DHD – The CW has picked up its final pilot of the season, and following in The Vampire Diaries‘ footsteps, not only is the pilot based on an L.J. Smith series, but none other than Kevin Williams is attached to executive produce. Williams will share writing credit on Secret Circle with Andrew Miller, who will also executive produce, along with Elizabeth Craft, Sarah Fain and Alloy Entertainment’s Leslie Morgenstein and Gina Girolamo.

Secret Circle tells the story of a young girl who moves to a new town and discovers she is part of a secret coven.

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The circle’s power has lured her home

Forced to move from sunny California to gloomy New England, Cassie longs for her old life. Even so, she feels a strange kinship to a terrifying group of teens who seem to rule her school. Initiated into the coven of witches that’s controlled New Salem for hundreds of years, she’s drawn into the Secret Circle, a thrill that’s both intoxicating and deadly. But when she falls for the mysterious and intriguing Adam, Cassie must choose whether to resist temptation or risk dark forces to get what she wants—even if it means that one wrong move could ultimately destroy her.

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