When loss is all you know, how do you find true love?
Beautiful Creatures meets The Body Finder in this spellbinding new trilogy.
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 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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I asked Martina what her favourite thing about Compulsion was, read on to find out!
(p.s it’s easily my favourite thing too!)
I secretly love Gothic novels. There was a point where Daphne du Maurier’s REBECCA and Mary Stewart’s AIRS ABOVE THE GROUND were among my favorite novels. I’ve always adored books with exotically dangerous settings, quirky characters, and elements of mystery and suspense. Since I’m from Prague, one of the most magical, broodingly beautiful cities in the world, the bar for magical locations is set pretty hight. But the South. Ah, there I have all the elements I love—a haunted past, regret, anger, continuing conflict, and questions of morality galore. Southern plantations are the closest thing to moldering abbeys and decaying castles that we have in the United States. I’m grateful to Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl for reminding me of how much I love all the elements they included in BEAUTIFUL CREATURES, because their series got me thinking about the possibilities of Spanish moss and crumbling Southern mansions. My favorite thing about Compulsion, hands down, is the setting and how it shaped (and twisted) the characters and families who live there.
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About Martina
Martina Boone was born in Prague and spoke several languages before learning English. Her first teacher in the U.S. made fun of her for not pronouncing the “wh” sound right, so she set out to master “all the words”—she’s still working on that! In the meantime she’s writing contemporary fantasy set in the kinds of magical places she’d love to visit.

Congrats!!! So excited for this book 🙂
Eeek! Congrats:) and thanks for hosting this giveaway!! 😀
Thanks for the awesome giveaway! Looking forward to checking out this book. 🙂
Compulsion looks like it’s going to be incredible and I can’t wait to read it. Congrats to Martina! Thank you for such an amazing giveaway.
Congratulations!! I have been wanting to read this book for a while now. Thanks for the giveaway!! 🙂
thanks for the amazing giveaway and congrats:)
Congrats on the awesome milestone! These look like awesome books.
Compulsion sounds great! Great interview 🙂
Congrats! I read The Archived and really liked it. I need to read The Unbound.
Awesome giveaway! *_*
Looking forward to this book!
Ahh! Thank you SO much for this wonderful giveaway! Looking forward to this book; it sounds great! 🙂
I love a good giveaway
Since I’ve lived in the SC Lowcountry most of my life, I heartily agree with Martina’s assessment of the location. Spanish moss makes any place instantly mysterious. Looking forward to reading this!
Christina R. in the rafflecopter
Martina rocks! Her posts are always helpful, and I love what she said about the South! It is all of that awesomeness 🙂 And I love how there are spooky mansions 🙂
Thank you 🙂
Awesome giveaway! Thank you so much.
I’m super excited to read this one, I just got my copy in the mail to review! My giveaway post is finally up. 🙂
Congratulations to Martina … I can hardly wait to get my mitts on COMPULSION!
This giveaway is awesome 🙂
Man, that cover is gorgeous!
Thank you for the awesome giveaway!!!
-Amber Terry-
Compulsion looks like a paranormal-slash-romantic-slash-mysterious novel that anyone would like to read. I know the feeling the author has now; I had the exact same event with my teacher, and then I promised myself that I will write on English, that I will read books on English just to make my English better and now, when it is pretty good, I can’t wait to smile smugly at my teacher and give her my first three chapters of my book. And here I am, trying to read more and more because reading is an addiction, especially for books like these.
Keep calm and continue reading,
Congratulations on the milestone!
I’ve been looking forward to reading Compulsion, so definitely hoping to get my hands on a copy! Great giveaway, thanks!
Jenny O’G
Congrats! Can’t wait to read this!
Thank you for this amazing giveaway! 🙂
Thanks so much for the amazing giveaway and fantastic post! I am just so excited about the book’s blog tour and will be following with eager interest. 🙂 x
Thanks for the giveaway 🙂
Absolutely amazing giveaway. Thanks so much!
Amazing giveaway!!
Thanks for the giveaway!
Thanks for doing this giveaway!