![]() She soon finds out that bewitching her father, Pierre, is only the first step in Severine’s plan to claim the entire island for the jumbies. And when this same beauty, called Severine, turns up at Corinne’s house, Corinne is sure that danger is in the air. When Corinne spots a beautiful stranger speaking to the town witch at the market the next day, she knows something unexpected is about to happen. Those shining yellow eyes that followed her to the edge of the trees, they couldn’t belong to a jumbie. ![]() Then one night Corinne chases an agouti all the way into the forbidden forest. They’re just tricksters parents make up to frighten their children. Not scorpions, not the boys who tease her, and certainly not jumbies. A spine-tingling tale rooted in Caribbean folklore about an ordinary girl who must use her extraordinary bravery-and a bit of magic-to save her island home from jumbies, the scary spirits that haunt the forest.Ĭorinne La Mer isn’t afraid of anything. ![]()
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