Persuasion (43 page)

Also by Martina Boone

Compulsion

This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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First Simon Pulse hardcover edition October 2015

Text copyright © 2015 by Martina Boone

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Boone, Martina.

Persuasion / by Martina Boone. — First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.

p. cm. — (Heirs of Watson Island ; [2])

Summary: When a mysterious man wielding a fatal spell appears at the Watson plantation, claiming the key to the Watson and Beaufort magical gifts and the Colesworth curse lies beneath the mansion, Barrie and dreamy Eight Beaufort struggle to make sense of the escalating danger and their growing feelings for each other.

[1. Families—Fiction. 2. Love—Fiction. 3. Supernatural—Fiction. 4. Blessing and cursing—Fiction. 5. Orphans—Fiction. 6. Islands—South Carolina—Fiction. 7. South Carolina—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.1.B667Pe 2015 [Fic]—dc23 2014043183

ISBN 978-1-4814-1125-7 (hc)

ISBN 978-1-4814-1127-1 (eBook)