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This Wicked Game
Michelle Zink
Publication date: November 14th 2013
by Dial
Claire Kincaid’s family has been in business for over fifty years.
The voodoo business.
Part of the International Guild of High Priests and Priestesses, a secret society that have practiced voodoo for generations, the Kincaid’s run an underground supply house for authentic voodoo supplies. Claire plays along, filling orders for powders, oils and other bizarre ingredients in the family store, but she has a secret.
She doesn’t believe.
Struggling to reconcile her modern sensibilities with a completely unscientific craft based on suspicion, Claire can’t wait to escape New Orleans – and voodoo – when she goes to college, a desire that creates almost constant conflict in her secret affair with Xander Toussaint, son of the Guild’s powerful founding family.
But when a mysterious customer places an order for a deadly ingredient, Claire begins to realize that there’s more to voodoo – and the families that make up the Guild – than meets the eye.
Including her own.
As she bands together with the other firstborns of the Guild, she comes face to face with a deadly enemy – and the disbelief that may very well kill her.

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Michelle Zink is author of the Gothic fantasy series, Prophecy of the Sisters (Little Brown Books for Young Readers) and A Temptation of Angels (Penguin/Dial).
Her next book, This Wicked Game, releases November 14, 2013 (Penguin/Dial).
Other releases this week:
* In no particular order *
– Extracted (The Lost Imperials #1) by Sherry D. Ficklin and Tyler Jolley[Purchase]
– Working It by Kendall Ryan [Purchase]
– Hold Us Close (Keep Me Still #1.5) by Caisey Quinn
– Shock & Awe (Sidewinder #1) by Abigail Roux [Purchase]
– Storm Shells (Wishes #3) by G.J. Walker-Smith
– The First Phone Call from Heaven by Mitch Albom [Purchase]
– Aftershock (Afterburn & Aftershock #2) by Sylvia Day [Purchase]
– Afterburn and Aftershock (Afterburn & Aftershock) by Sylvia Day [Purchase]
– Empower (The Violet Eden Chapters #5) by Jessica Shirvington [Purchase]
– Afterglow (Wildefire #3) by Karsten Knight [Purchase]
– Beautiful Broken Mess (Broken #2) by Kimberly Lauren [Purchase]
– A Little Too Much (A Little Too Far #2) by Lisa Desrochers [Purchase]
– Try (Temptation #1) by Ella Frank [Purchase]
– Ink My Heart (Luminescent Juliet #2) by Jean Haus [Purchase]
– The First Dragon (The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica #7) by James A. Owen [Purchase]
– The F- It List by Julie Halpern [Purchase]
– A Stranger Thing (Ever-Expanding Universe #2) by Martin Leicht and Isla Neal [Purchase]
– Uncrashable Dakota by Andy Marino [Purchase]
– Hostage Three by Nick Lake [Purchase]
– Loud Awake and Lost by Adele Griffin [Purchase]
– Hild by Nicola Griffith [Purchase]
– Break It Up by Emily Mah Tippetts
– Fiddlehead (The Clockwork Century #6) by Cherie Priest [Purchase]
– Full Ride by Margaret Peterson Haddix [Purchase]
– Long Live the Queen (The Immortal Empire #3) by Kate Locke [Purchase]
– Firebrand (Elemental Trilogy #2) by Antony John [Purchase]
– Save the Enemy by Arin Greenwood [Purchase]
– The Living by Matt de la Pena [Purchase]
– Splendor (Sacred #2) by Elana K. Arnold [Purchase]
– Unspoken (The Vampire Diaries: The Salvation, # 2) by L.J. Smith [Purchase]
– Foul Trouble by John Feinstein [Purchase]
– Son of Fortune by Victoria McKernan [Purchase]
– Ketchup Clouds by Annabel Pitcher [Purchase]
– No Place Like Oz (Dorothy Must Die 0.5) by Danielle Paige [Purchase]
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Pili
Seems that this week what I’m mostly excited for is the Dorothy Must Die novella!
Scott Pilgrim
I was actually disappointed by No Place Like Oz, but I’m excited for This Wicked Game!
Amy @ Book Loving Mom
Extracted was pretty good. I still need to read The F-It List and A Little Too Far. Nothing else I’m really looking forward to too much this coming week though.
Mel@thedailyprophecy
I liked Zink’s series, so I’m interested in This wicked games. I also want to see No place like Oz in preparations for Dorothy must die 😀
Savannah
Lots of sweet books coming out…
Kara @ Great Imaginations
Ketchup Clouds, definitely! I have been wanting to read that since it was an Aussie book! I’ve heard so much about it.
Juhina
oh my GOD EMPOWERRRRRR <3 I LOVE LOVE this series SO MUCH and I can't wait for it!!
– Juhina @ Maji Bookshelf
Melanie (YA Midnight Reads)
eeeks! I can’t wait for Empower 😀 I think it’s coming out in US later though… well that was the case for the other books of the series anyway.