Thank you to my kids, Tyler, Ireland, and Liam. You have truly taught me to see magic in the everyday. Thanks to my dad, Tom Ireland, for being awesome. And thanks to Shane. You inspire me and I love you so.
TRICIA STIRLING lives in Sacramento with her family. This is her first novel.
Copyright © 2015 by Tricia Stirling
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Stirling, Tricia, author.
When my heart was wicked / Tricia Stirling. — First edition.
pages cm
Summary: After her father dies, leaving sixteen-year-old Lacy with her much-loved stepmother, Lacy’s birth mother suddenly shows up wanting Lacy back — and she will stop at nothing, not even dark magic, to control her daughter and draw her into her own twisted life.
ISBN 0-545-69573-2 — ISBN 978-0-545-69573-2 1. Mothers and daughters — Juvenile fiction. 2. Stepmothers — Juvenile fiction. 3. Magic — Juvenile fiction. 4. Choice (Psychology) — Juvenile fiction. [1. Mothers and daughters — Fiction. 2. Stepmothers — Fiction. 3. Magic — Fiction. 4. Choice — Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.1.S75Wh 2015
813.6 — dc23
2014021741
First edition, March 2015
Cover art © 2015 by Murilo Maciel
Cover design by Jeannine Riske
e-ISBN 978-0-545-69575-6
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