The Wicked Deep - by Shea Ernshaw (Paperback)

About the Book

A "New York Times" bestseller and a "wickedly chilling debut" ("School Library Journal"). Three sisters, drowned as witches in Sparrow, Oregon, in the 1800s, return each summer for revenge. But 17-year-old Penny Talbot is determined to stop them to save the boy she loves.

Book Synopsis

A New York Times bestseller.

Practical Magic meets the Salem Witch trials in this "wickedly chilling" (School Library Journal) story about three sisters on a quest for revenge--and how love may be the only thing powerful enough to stop them.

Welcome to the cursed town of Sparrow...

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 sisters' 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.

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"A wickedly chilling debut about ghosts, witches, love, and revenge." -- School Library Journal

"Chilling both by the damp, briny streets of Sparrow and by its residents' sudden fervor for vengeance." -- BCCB, starred review

"Balancing delicate emotion and authentic suspense, the hypnotic prose pulls readers into the question of how, or if, the curse of the sisters can be broken." --Publishers Weekly

"Readers will drown in this finely crafted, atmospheric book." -- Kirkus

"Complex and sweetly satisfying." -- Booklist

"A tale with substance and depth, one of magic and curses, betrayal and revenge, but most importantly, it is a story about the redemptive power of love to make even the worst wrongs, right. -- Amber Smith, New York Times bestselling author of The Way I Used to Be.

"Prepare to be bewitched." -- Paula Stokes, author of Liars, Inc. and Girl Against The Universe.

"Eerie and enchanting." -- Jessica Spotswood, author of The Cahill Witch Chronicles and editor of Toil & Trouble

"A magical, haunted tale of the sea, spells and secrets. . . . Beware!" -- Shannon Parker, author of The Rattled Bones

About the Author

Shea Ernshaw is a #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of The Wicked Deep, Winterwood, A Wilderness of Stairs, Long Live the Pumpkin Queen, and A History of Wild Places. Her books have been published in over twenty countries and repeatedly chosen as Indie Next Picks. She lives in a small mountain town in Oregon and is happiest when lost in a good book, lost in the woods, or writing her next novel. Visit her online at SheaErnshaw.com.