Audiobook Release Blitz: Compulsion (The Heirs of Watson Island #1) by Martina Boone @martinaaboone @tantoraudio @simonteen @NereydaG1003 #YABOUNDBOOKTOURS #Giveaway

Compulsion (The Heirs of Watson Island #1)

by Martina Boone 

Release Date: 10/28/14

Narrated by: Joell A. Jacob
Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins 

Simon Pulse/Tantor Audio

448 pages

Summary from Goodreads:

Three plantations. Two wishes. One ancient curse.

All her life, Barrie Watson has been a virtual prisoner in the house where she lives with her shut-in mother. When her mother dies, Barrie promises to put some mileage on her stiletto heels. But she finds a new kind of prison at her aunt's South Carolina plantation instead--a prison guarded by an ancient spirit who long ago cursed one of the three founding families of Watson Island and gave the others magical gifts that became compulsions.

Stuck with the ghosts of a generations-old feud and hunted by forces she cannot see, Barrie must find a way to break free of the family legacy. With the help of sun-kissed Eight Beaufort, who knows what Barrie wants before she knows herself, the last Watson heir starts to unravel her family's twisted secrets. What she finds is dangerous: a love she never expected, a river that turns to fire at midnight, a gorgeous cousin who isn't what she seems, and very real enemies who want both Eight and Barrie dead.

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Praise for Compulsion:

"Skillfully blends rich magic and folklore with adventure, sweeping romance, and hidden treasure . . . An impressive start to the Heirs of Watson Island series." -Publishers 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

"Darkly romantic and steeped in Southern Gothic charm, you'll be compelled to get lost in the Heirs of Watson Island series." -JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT, #1 New York Times bestselling author

"A fresh twist on the Southern Gothic -- haunting, atmospheric, and absorbing." -CLAUDIA GRAY, New York Timesbestselling 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, USA Today and New York Times 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. Compulsion is not to be missed." -MEGAN SHEPHERD, author of The Madman's Daughter

Book Two:

PERSUASION (HEIRS OF WATSON ISLAND, BOOK 2) 

Beautiful Creatures meets Gone With the Wind

As reporters chasing rumors of a stolen shipment of Civil War gold descend on Watson Island, Barrie Watson discovers more is buried at Colesworth Place than treasure. A mysterious, magical man claims the key to the Watson and Beaufort gifts and the Colesworth curse also lies beneath the mansion, and Barrie has no option but to help him find it. While she and Eight Beaufort struggle to make sense of the escalating danger and their growing feelings for each other, Barrie must decide not only whom to trust, but which gift is more reliable-Eight's or her own. With the fate of the founding families at stake, she has to choose between what she feels deep in her heart and what will keep her loved ones safe.

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About the Author

Martina Boone was born in Prague and spoke several languages before learning English. She fell in love with words and never stopped delighting in them.

She's the founder of AdventuresInYAPublishing.com, a Writer's Digest 101 Best Websites for Writers site, and YASeriesInsiders.com, a site devoted to encouraging literacy and all this YA Series.

From her home in Virginia, where she lives with her husband, children, and Auggie the wonder dog, she enjoys writing contemporary fantasy set in the kinds of magical places she'd love to visit. When she isn't writing, she's addicted to travel, horses, skiing, chocolate flavored tea, and anything with Nutella on it.

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By- Shane Hayes

Genre-Suspense 

For every man there's a girl who grips his imagination and his heart as no other girl ever did or will. She may be in her teens or a mature woman. He responds to her as a boy to a girl. Whether she comes early in his life or late, there is a throne in his subconscious that she takes possession of, without trying, often without wanting to.The image he forms of her reigns there in perpetuity, even if she has left his life, or this life. Her enchantment never fades or fails, and he is never immune to it. She may not be for him the last wife or paramour, but she is the last dreamgirl.

    

Excerpt:

Though only twenty-four Ronald Pavone had been a private investigator for six years—four part-time while in college and two full-time since. He worked for the Wright Detective Agency on South Broad Street near center city Philadelphia. Ron had learned that mild surprises were part of every case and big surprises not uncommon. They were the spice of his professional life. Yet never had he experienced such jaw-dropping amazement as he had that night, Tuesday, June 5, 1962.

            He was reeling from what he had just learned in a meeting with eyewitness Stan Grackle. It had turned the missing-person case involving Sandra Moore upside down....

Ron sat with Marisa on the sofa and told her everything he had learned from Stan Grackle that night—the whole conversation, blow by blow, shock after shock. From the start of the investigation two months ago Ron had suspected that Sandra Moore’s live-in uncle, Hal Nevil, had committed double incest, having sex not only with his widowed sister, the girl’s mother, but with Sandra too, and had murdered the girl when she resisted or threatened to inform on him. Evidence had surfaced to support that view.

After two months Ron found Stan Grackle, who had seen Sandra abducted on a Pennview street but who for complicated reasons would not let himself be identified or testify in court. When Ron finally dismissed him as of no help if he wouldn’t testify, Stan made a parting comment on how ugly the abductor was. Ron was stunned. Hal Nevil was a handsome man. Stan described grotesque features that were nothing like Hal’s but suggested the beaked chinless face of a vulture. And the car in which the Vulture spirited the girl away—Stan got only the first letter of its license plate—was not Hal’s either.

“Oh, my God,” Marisa said when he had finished. “Then Hal didn’t do it!”

“Well, he raped her,” Ron corrected. “I’m sure he did that. And he abused her sexually for years. But if we believe this damned Grackle, he didn’t kill her, or abduct her. Someone else did.... I’m back to square one. Goddammit!”....

“It must feel awful,” she said, taking his hand sympathetically.... "Every time you think you cracked it they say, no, you can’t use the evidence, or it’s not enough. You’ve been on a roller coaster.”

 “Yeah,” Ron said, raising her hand to his lips and kissing it. “But tonight it crashed. This isn’t just another down after a big up. This is the end of my case against Hal....” Ron shook his head in bafflement. “Two hot leads didn’t do it. Hal didn’t do it. After two months, I don’t know who the hell did it.”

“Yes, you do. Stan told you the Vulture did it. He carried her away in his ugly talons. You even know what he looks like. You just have to find him.”

“Yeah, but how do you track down a vulture that’s flown away?”

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