Legacy
Authors: Molly Cochran
Tags: #Juvenile Fiction, #Paranormal, #Love & Romance, #Fantasy & Magic, #Fiction, #General
“An amazing debut crackling with
magic and mystery!”
—S
HANNON
D
ELANY,
author of the
13 to Life series
“A fast-paced, electrifying read! With a
courageous yet achingly human heroine,
Molly Cochran made me believe in magic!”
—J
ERI
S
MITH
-R
EADY,
award-winning author
of the Shade trilogy
I was sixteen years old when I discovered exactly who—and what—I was. Before then, I suppose I wasn’t much of anything, just a girl who’d somehow managed to spend most of my life in southern Florida without becoming blonde, athletic, or comfortable with boys.
I’d lived with my father, who did his level best to turn me into the biggest geek in Palm Beach. His main contribution to my discovering myself was to ditch me in a boarding school fifteen hundred miles from everything I knew. . . .
—from
Legacy
The Darkness
is coming.
When Katy Jessevar’s widowed father exiles her to a boarding school in Whitfield, Massachusetts, fate opens the door to her future and her past. Katy soon learns that like many of the old families in town, her never-spoken-of mother was from a notorious witching line, and that she, too, possesses special powers. With dark forces converging on Whitfield, it’s up to Katy to unravel her family’s many secrets to save the boy she loves—and the town itself—from destruction.
MOLLY COCHRAN
is the
New York Times
bestselling author of more than twenty-five books. Her first novel,
Grandmaster,
written with Warren Murphy, was a
New York Times
bestseller and Edgar Award recipient. She and Warren Murphy also wrote the international bestseller
The Forever King
.
Legacy
is her first book for young adults. She lives with her family in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Jacket design by Krista Vossen
Jacket photograph by Laura Hanifin
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cochran, Molly.
Legacy / Molly Cochran.
p. cm.
“A Paula Wiseman Book.”
Summary: Stuck at a boarding school where her fellow students seem to despise her, Katy soon discovers that Whitfield, Massachusetts, is the place where her mother committed suicide under mysterious circumstances when Katy was a small child, and as dark forces begin to converge on Whitfield, it is up to Katy to unravel her family’s many secrets to save the boy she loves and the town itself from destruction.
ISBN 978-1-4424-1739-7 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN: 978-1-4424-1739-7 (print)
ISBN 978-1-4424-1741-0 (eBook)
[1. Good and evil—Fiction. 2. Supernatural—Fiction. 3. Witches—Fiction. 4. Boarding
schools—Fiction. 5. Schools—Fiction. 6. Massachusetts—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.C6394Le 2011
[Fic]—dc23
2011019437
For Charlotte and Gordon Follett,
who know what love is
Chapter 37. The Book of Secrets
Chapter 41. The Song of Unmaking
LEGACY
HAPTER
•
O
NE
TRANSFIGURATION
I was sixteen years old when I discovered exactly who—and what—I was. Before then, I suppose I wasn’t much of anything, just a girl who’d somehow managed to spend most of my life in southern Florida without becoming blonde, athletic, or comfortable with boys.
