Winged Reviews - Cover Reveal and Contest: Conjure by Lea Nolan

reviewer: Daphne August 20th, 2012 Cover Reveal, Fantasy, Young Adult

Today’s cover reveal is a young adult fantasy from another 2012 debut author. It also comes with a contest to win copies of the book, so scroll down to join!

About LEA NOLAN:

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Believe it or not, Lea couldn’t read until she was in the third grade. After a lot of hard work she finally got the hang of it, and quickly learned the best way to get out of doing chores was to tell her parents she was reading. Soon she was hooked, devouring books by Roald Dahl, E.B. White, Judy Blume, C.S. Lewis, and anything she could find with a shiny Newberry Award sticker on the cover. Books provided a portal to enchanted lands where anything was possible and characters relied on their wits to wiggle out of sticky situations. Today, even though she’s all grown up, Ishe writes the kinds of stories she sought as a teen — smart paranormals with bright heroines, crazy-hot heroes, diabolical plot twists, plus a dose of magic, a draft of romance, and a sprinkle of history. She’s got an undergraduate degree in history and a master’s in public policy and women’s studies, which believe it or not, helps a lot in her fiction writing. She lives in Maryland with her heroically supportive husband and three clever children, who’ve figured out how to get out of doing their chores.

About CONJURE

Be careful what you search for…

Emma Guthrie expects this summer to be like any other in the South Carolina Lowcountry–hot and steamy with plenty of beach time alongside her best friend and secret crush, Cooper Beaumont, and Emma’s ever-present twin brother, Jack. But then a mysterious eighteenth-century message in a bottle surfaces, revealing a hidden pirate bounty. Lured by the adventure, the trio discovers the treasure and unwittingly unleashes an ancient Gullah curse that attacks Jack with the wicked flesh-eating Creep and promises to steal Cooper’s soul on his approaching sixteenth birthday.

When a strange girl appears, bent on revenge; demon dogs become a threat; and Jack turns into a walking skeleton; Emma has no choice but to learn hoodoo magic to undo the hex, all before summer—and her friends–are lost forever.

And now the cover: