Compulsion (Heirs of Watson Island Book 1)

Award-winning author Martina Boone creates a novel rich with suspense, romance, magic, and redemption as a young woman haunted by her own family's past returns to the small Southern town of her roots to unlock the curse that bind three families to their land and keeps them from fully living in the present. 

All her life, Barrie Watson has been a virtual prisoner in the house where she lived 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 Eight Beaufort, who seems to know 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.

   

Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl's Beautiful Creatures meets Maggie Stiefvater's The Raven Boys in this southern paranormal romance of love and magic.