by Martina Boone
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GENRE: Contemporary Romance (sweet)
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BLURB:
Helping her aunt organize a Beltane
Festival in a picturesque Highland village seems like the perfect escape from
Anna’s second broken engagement and the meltdown that wrecked her legal career.
But to succeed, she’ll need to wrangle kilt-wearing villagers, dangerous sheep,
a disaster of a dog, and the reclusive laird who refuses to open his property
to the public for the ancient tradition of “Sighting.”
For centuries, Loch Fàil in
Balwhither has been known to locals as a ‘thin’ place, one where the veil
between worlds peels back on Beltane morning to reveal the face of a person's
one true love. The tradition could draw tourists by the busload, but that’s
exactly what Connal MacGregor fears will expose the two secrets he's been
desperate to keep hidden.
As Anna struggles to mediate between
the needs of the village and Connal’s need to protect his identity and his
child, she finds herself falling in love with all of them: Connal and his
daughter, the magical glen, the villagers. But day by day, opening herself to
love exposes deep scars from Anna’s childhood, and confronting those wounds
could finally set her free--or endanger her every chance of happiness.
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EXCERPT
Anna blinked at him like an owl. “It was a joke.”
He leaned closer. “I know that,” he said, his breath fanning across her cheek. “So was mine.”
This was flirting. He was flirting with her, wasn’t he? Or was he?
Maybe he said things like this to every woman.
See? This was why it was treacherous to be around a man like Connal.
Anna stared back, unable to come up with a single word to say. Mercifully, the bell jangled again above the door, and Connal glanced across the room. “Here’s Elspeth. I suppose we should go through and get the meeting started.”
Anna blinked again and took another long, slow sip of spiked coffee that scalded her tongue, seared warmth down into her stomach, and left her disoriented. At least, it must have been the whiskey’s fault. Another explanation would have involved admitting that it was Connal as much as the Scotch, and that was inconceivable. Men hadn’t had this kind of an effect on her since high school. Since college.
Since Henry.
She’d grown up since Henry. Grown more rational since Henry. And she’d learned a thing or two about not taking actors at face value.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Martina Boone is the
award-winning author of the romantic southern gothic Heirs of Watson Island
series for young adults, including Compulsion (Oct ’14), Persuasion (Oct ’15),
and Illusion (Oct ’16), from Simon & Schuster, Simon Pulse, and
heartwarming contemporary romances for adult readers beginning with Lake of Destiny. She’s also the founder of AdventuresInYAPublishing.com, a three-time
Writer’s Digest 101 Best Websites for Writers Site, and YASeriesInsiders.com, a
site dedicated to encouraging literacy and reader engagement through a
celebration of series literature. She’s on the Board of the Literacy Council of
Northern Virginia and runs the CompulsionForReading.com program to distribute
books to underfunded schools and libraries.
She lives with her husband,
children, shetland sheepdog, and lopsided cat, and she enjoys writing romance
set in the kinds of magical places she loves to visit. When she isn’t writing,
she’s addicted to travel, horses, skiing, chocolate flavored tea, and anything
with Nutella on it.
PRAISE FOR MARTINA BOONE’S
COMPULSION
“Skillfully blends rich
magic and folklore with adventure, sweeping romance, and hidden treasure . . . An
impressive start.” — Publisher’s Weekly
“Eight Beaufort is so
swoon-worthy that it’s ridiculous. Move over Four, Eight is here to stay!” — RT
Book Reviews, RT Editors Best Books of 2014
“Boone’s Southern Gothic
certainly delivers a compelling mystery about feuding families and buried
secrets, not to mention a steamy romance.” — Booklist
“Darkly romantic and steeped
in Southern Gothic charm, you’ll be compelled to get lost in the Heirs of
Watson Island series.” — #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L.
Armentrout
“The perfect Southern family
saga: charming and steamy on the surface, with cold-blooded secrets buried down
deep. — Kendare Blake, NYT bestselling author of Three Dark Crowns and Anna
Dressed in Blood
“A fresh twist on the
Southern Gothic—haunting, atmospheric, and absorbing.” — Claudia Gray, New York
Times bestselling author of A Thousand Pieces of You and the Evernight and
Spellcaster series
“A stunningly magical debut
with a delicious slow burn to be savored. I want to live in this story world!”
— Wendy Higgins, NYT bestselling author of the Sweet Evil trilogy
“Beautifully written, with
vivid characters, a generations-old feud, and romance that leaps off the page,
this Southern ghost story left me lingering over every word, and yet wanting to
race to the compelling finish. Martina Boone’s Compulsion is not to be missed.”
— Megan Shepherd, NYT bestselling author of The Cage series and The Madman’s
Daughter
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ReplyDeleteI think the tradition would keep me away, not get me on a bus to visit. Sounds amazing.
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