The Watson plantation is on an island along with three other plantations: The Beauforts and the Colesworth. She is moving in with her aunt Pru and quickly realizes her family has some amazing history and even more unbelievable secrets. Barrie Watson is returning to her family's plantation in South Carolina now that her mother has passed away and the man who has always taken care of her is dying also. When my husband picked it up to read the summary on the jacket the first words from his lips were, 'This sounds like a different book for you.' Yep - this book, the entire series actually, is vastly different not because of the type of characters, or even the framework of the book - this book takes a step into a side of history that is full of folklore, magic and mystery.Ĭompulsion (Heirs of Watson Island) ** is the first book in Martina Boone's trilogy. That is exactly what I did with this particular book- Compulsion by Martina Boone. Probably once a month I'll check out the recommendations and randomly pick one to check out at my local library.

In fact, the recommendations often include books that no one in my circle of Goodreads friends has commented on - and let me just say my Goodreads friends are a very eclectic group. It's a scary step for me because the lists usually consist of books I have never heard of. I have taken to allowing Goodreads to give me recommendations off of books that I really enjoyed. The key is discovering these diamonds in the rough. Then, once in a while, a story comes out that seems completely new on a level that makes the entire story fresh and exciting.

Even the stories that sound like copies of popular stories are full of surprises each time they are recreated. The storylines that authors come up with in fiction never ceases to amaze me.