I have an old black-and-white photograph taken in the 1920s of a woman at a traveling circus floating in a massive tank filled with water, blond hair billowing around her head, legs hidden by a false mermaid’s fin made of metallic fabric and thread to look like scales. And she will be forced to choose: save Bo, or save herself. And death comes swiftly to those who cannot resist the call of the sisters.īut only Penny sees what others cannot. Penny and Bo suspect each other of hiding secrets. The townspeople turn against one another. Mistrust and lies spread quickly through the salty, rain-soaked streets. But this year, on the eve of the sisters’ return, a boy named Bo Carter arrives unaware of the danger he has just stumbled into. Like many locals, seventeen-year-old Penny Talbot has accepted the fate of the town. Now, for a brief time each summer, the sisters return, stealing the bodies of three weak-hearted girls so that they may seek their revenge, luring boys into the harbor and pulling them under. Stones were tied to their ankles and they were drowned in the deep waters surrounding the town. Where, two centuries ago, three sisters were sentenced to death for witchery.

Hocus Pocus and Practical Magic meets the Salem Witch trials in this haunting story about three sisters on a quest for revenge-and how love may be the only thing powerful enough to stop them. “Eerie and enchanting.” -Jessica Spotswood, author of The Cahill Witch Chronicles “A story about the redemptive power of love.” -Amber Smith, New York Times bestselling author of The Way I Used to Be “Prepare to be bewitched.” -Paula Stokes, author of Girl Against the Universe “Complex and sweetly satisfying.” - Booklist Look forward to future titles from the author.-Sean Rapacki.“A wickedly chilling debut.” - School Library Journal Will definitely enjoy sinking into The Wicked Deep, and will undoubtedly Fans of supernatural romances and books with unreliable narrators She weaves a clever tale with a whopper of a

This is Ernshaw's first published novel, and her writing is Penny and Bo's paths will cross,Īnd, amidst the ritual drownings, secrets will be revealed. Type of visitor as well-a brooding young man named Bo who has reasons The annual return of the Swan sisters has become quiteĪ tourist attraction in the town, but this year, the town has another To Sparrow, both of them damaged by the disappearance of her father Penny is a local teen who lives alone with her mother on an island close Young women and using them to lure men to watery deaths in the sea. Then, the sisters have returned, temporarily claiming bodies of local Sent them to their deaths at the bottom of the ocean. Two hundred years ago, the town of Sparrow tried three sisters and

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