Everyone at Simon Pulse, you have given this book a home and championed it in so many ways. Mara Anastas, Mary Marotta, Liesa Abrams, Jennifer Ung, Sarah McCabe, Elizabeth Mims, Katherine Devendorf—how you ladies juggle it all, astounds and impresses me! Jessica Handelman for designing a perfectly spooky cover and Lisa Perrin for the bewitching artwork. Jessi Smith—thank you for reading the book numerous times! To the crusaders who stand on apple boxes and shout about all the books that need to be read: Catherine Hayden, Matt Pantoliano, Janine Perez, Lauren Hoffman, and Jodie Hockensmith. You all deserve daily cake and tea.
To my inspiring, fearless, unbelievably talented writer friends—you know who you are—who have been on the other end of my phone calls when my characters wouldn’t behave or I wanted to burn it all. I thank you for being rocks and also warm blankets.
To Sky, I think I’ll keep you forever. Your support and belief in me are more than I deserve. Someday we’ll write the Lightkeeper’s Apprentice story. I heart you.
My parents, you filled our home with books, and you let me believe I could write them someday too. I thank you for it all. More than I can measure.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Author photograph by Sky Pinnick
Shea Ernshaw lives and writes in a small mountain town in Oregon, where she shares her home with her husband, a tiny dog named Diesel, and two furry felines. She is happiest when lost in a good book, lost in the woods, or writing her next novel. You can connect with her online at www.sheaernshaw.com.
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First Simon Pulse hardcover edition March 2018
Text copyright © 2018 by Shea Ernshaw
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Ernshaw, Shea, author.
Title: The wicked deep / by Shea Ernshaw.
Description: First Simon Pulse hardcover edition. | New York : Simon Pulse, 2018. |
Summary: Three sisters, drowned as witches in Sparrow, Oregon, in the 1800s, return each summer for revenge but Penny, seventeen, is determined to stop them to save the boy she loves.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017023239 | ISBN 9781481497343 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781481497367 (eBook)
Subjects: | CYAC: Love—Fiction. | Revenge—Fiction. | Supernatural—Fiction. | Witches—Fiction. | Sisters—Fiction. | Coasts—Fiction. | Oregon—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.1.E755 Wic 2018 | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017023239