A New York Times bestseller.
āA wickedly chilling debut.ā āSchool Library Journal
āComplex and sweetly satisfying.ā āBooklist
āPrepare to be bewitched.ā āPaula Stokes, author of Girl Against the Universe
āA story about the redemptive power of love.ā āAmber Smith, New York Times bestselling author of The Way I Used to Be
āEerie and enchanting.ā āJessica Spotswood, author of The Cahill Witch Chronicles
Hocus Pocus and Practical Magic meets the Salem Witch trials in this haunting story about three sisters on a quest for revengeāand how love may be the only thing powerful enough to stop them.
Welcome to the cursed town of Sparrowā¦
Where, two centuries ago, three sisters were sentenced to death for witchery. Stones were tied to their ankles and they were drowned in the deep waters surrounding 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.
Like many locals, seventeen-year-old Penny Talbot has accepted the fate of the town. But this year, on the eve of the sistersā return, a boy named Bo Carter arrives; unaware of the danger he has just stumbled into.
Mistrust and lies spread quickly through the salty, rain-soaked streets. The townspeople turn against one another. Penny and Bo suspect each other of hiding secrets. And death comes swiftly to those who cannot resist the call of the sisters.
But only Penny sees what others cannot. And she will be forced to choose: save Bo, or save herself.