Books with author Linda Cargill

Joyce and Jed are walking hand-in-hand on the Dog Beach. The tide’s advancing in. It’s time to leave. Jed throws her his car keys and starts swimming out to sea. Joyce tries to follow. She’s swamped by a big wave. Someone with long, slender, white arms is hanging around Joyce and won’t let go. Joyce comes ashore. The girl’s dead. Jed seems to be, too. She leaves them on the beach and goes to get help. When she comes back with the police, Jed and the girl have vanished. What is going on? Joyce had better find out soon --- before she vanishes, too, in this young adult supernatural thriller for teens published by Edward Ware Thrillers YA, an imprint of Cheops Books, LLC.

Wanda shows up for her first day of class at St. Simons High. But she is greeted with hoots about her clothes. The kids tease her that they aren’t swanky enough for her usual style when she deigns to emerge from the lighthouse on the beach where she supposedly lives. Then the English teacher greets her with a remark about how it is unusual for her to actually show up at class instead of hang around on the beach at all hours of the day and night, though Wanda has never seen the beach yet. She just got to town yesterday. Wanda can’t convince them that she has just moved here and doesn’t know anybody. A boy named David calls her Estelle and says she can’t fool him.What is going on here? Wanda had better find out who is impersonating her, who is her double, before there is real hell to pay.Doubles was originally published in German by Cora Verlag, Harper Collins Germany. Now it is brought to you by Edward Ware Thrillers YA, an imprint of Cheops Books, LLC. If you liked Doubles, you will enjoy other young adult thrillers by Linda Cargill such as Bather, Reborn, Missing, Canyon, and Rocks.

Danielle has a nightmare about her rival, Marjorie Fox. Marjorie is after her boyfriend, Daren. She meets her on the beach and throws her in the trunk of her car. She takes Marjorie to the base of an old oak tree in her front yard and throws her into a gaping dark hole. But the nightmare turns on Danielle. As she tries to get away, a low-hanging branch grabs hold of her long reddish gold hair. She ends up swinging from the tree by her hair. She wakes up in her bed with her long, waist-length hair wrapped around her neck and must struggle to disentangle herself from it. Even worse, when she goes downstairs for breakfast, she sees a strange person she has never seen before hanging around the very same oak tree staring back at her. It was just a dream, wasn't it? Or was the nightmare something else? Danielle had better figure it out pretty soon. Either that or she had better get a haircut.

Jessie had never seen her before. The beautiful girl who seemed to get a thrill out of surfing on a stormy sea. Maybe she'd been lucky in the past, but Jessie saw the girl's luck run out. Jessie saw her drown. So who's the new girl in town? The one who doesn't know who she is -- or where she came from. The one who seems to cast a spell over everyone else she meets? Has the beautiful surfer come back from the dead? Or is it something else in this young adult horror novel by Linda Cargill.

Sharon's party should have been perfect. The event of the year. After all, it was being held in the indoor/outdoor pool at her mother's exclusive new hotel. It was definitely a party any senior would love to be invited to. But somebody had invitations delivered before they were supposed to be mailed. And they went to all the people Sharon hardly knew. Even though things seemed kind of weird, Sharon decided to go with the flow. How bad could things be? Sharon should never have believed that everything would be okay. She should have known that something was very, very wrong. Because now some of her guests might end up doing the dead man's float --- for real in this young adult murder thriller.

Gwendolyn finds a mysterious staircase that seems to lead up to an attic in the new house she and her family are touring in Tucson where they are moving. The current owner of the house dismisses the old room and says they wouldn’t be interested. Instead the lady leads them over to the in-ground pool in the backyard where Gwendolyn’s brother is already swimming and playing. He throws a ball out that lands in a pond with a waterfalls. She tries to retrieve it when she catches sight of a girl’s face in the water that seems to sink down under the surface and disappear.What’s going on here? No wonder the previous owners are so anxious to sell the property that makes chills go up her spine. What are her parents getting themselves into?Attic is brought to you by Edward Ware Thrillers YA, an imprint of Cheops Books, LLC. If you liked this novel you will enjoy other young adult thrillers by Linda Cargill such as Lighthouse, Ghost Town, Cat Sleuth, Pirates Ahoy, and Wrong Way.

In a pelting rainstorm Charlene and her parents drive their SUV uphill to the San Diego lighthouse where her father is to fix the light for the Coast Guard. No one has lived there since the lighthouse keeper and his family were found dead at dinner one hundred years ago. It looks like that might be their fate too when a wall of water picks up their car and washes it onto a rock. A strange young man standing by the side of the road smiles and waves at her. He looks dry despite all the rain and water. What is going on here? What spooky game is this? Charlene had better figure out what’s going on or she won’t survive to return to her boyfriend in Virginia Beach.Lighthouse was first published in German by Cora Verlag, Harper Collins Germany. Now it is brought to you by Edward Ware Thrillers YA, an imprint of Cheops Books, LLC. If you liked Lighthouse you will like other young adult horror novels by Linda Cargill such as Ghost Town, Cat Sleuth, Pirates Ahoy, Wrong Way, and Legacy.

The twelve‑year‑old girl stood on the verge of womanhood. Dressed in her finest buckskin clothing and moccasins, her beaded headband and necklace, made specially for the Apache coming‑of‑age ceremony, Lozen held her hands upward toward the sun and prayed to White Painted Woman. Today on the fifth day of the festivities came the ultimate test that would determine her destiny for the rest of her life and welcome her into the tribe as a full‑fledged woman. She had to run several times around the basket that contained all the objects that the Apache considered sacred. If she faltered or tripped she would bring bad luck on the People and on herself.Holding her head proudly she ran as quickly, flawlessly, and gracefully as a gazelle. People admired her. But soon gasps were heard. A white stallion raced into camp knocking everything over. Lozen overcame her fear, stopped the horse, and mounted it. Her tribe took this as an omen that she was to be its first woman warrior. For her skill in riding the horse, she earned the name Wind Dancer.Apache Warrior Woman is a fictional juvenile biography for the middle grades based on the life of Lozen, a real Apache warrior woman.

Beverly, goes exploring in the chapel adjacent to her parents’ new inn stumbles upon a spiral staircase that leads up to the choir loft. Beverly gets possessed by the ghost of a student from the convent school attached to the chapel from more than one hundred years before. Then, when she goes down the staircase, she gets possessed by the ghost of another girl from the same convent school. The two ghosts hate each other and are plotting to do each other in. The only problem is that they now share the same body, the heroine. The heroine is effectively plotting to murder herself in this young adult horror novel.Double Possession is based upon the author's visit to the Loretto Chapel in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which also has a haunted spiral staircase. This young adult supernatural thriller, originally published in German by Cora Verlag, or Harper Collins Germany, is now brought to you by Edward Ware Thrillers YA, an imprint of Cheops Books, LLC.

Irene moves with her parents to the wilds of Montana so her parents can work in Yellowstone studying bears and other wild creatures. It is bad enough to be away from her friends in the middle of nowhere. She even gets a weirdo note in the mail from her old boyfriend who did not want her to go that threatens that the bears are going to eat her. But their new house is strange, too. It is full of old portraits on the walls. One of them is particularly compelling. An elegant lady from the nineteenth century with a fancy necklace is starting straight at her. Irene cannot look away. No matter where she goes in the room she cannot escape it. It creeps into her dreams. Is this house haunted? Or did somebody put the portrait there to scare her away? Maybe it wasn't her former boyfriend after all who had sent the threatening notes about bears. Who doesn't like her? She had better figure it out, or Irene might end up dead.Ancestress was originally published in German by Cora Verlag, Harper Collins Germany. It is now brought to you by Edward Ware Thrillers YA, an imprint of Cheops Books, LLC. If you liked Ancestress, you will enjoy other young adult thrillers by Linda Cargill such as Pool, Cave, Shade, Moon, and Snow.

Jenny and her best friend are about ready to get back against her big sixteeen-year-old sister, Shari, big time. She has betrayed Jenny. It is Shari’s job to mow the lawn. But she has been pushing her chores off on her twelve-year-old sister lately because Shari is always out on a date. So Jenny and her friend are sneaking up on Shari down in the living room to throw Queen Anne’s lace on her right when she is kissing her new dream beau. The flowers land on her head. Shari starts to sneeze. The girls start to run. But the new boyfriend glares up at them. That is when Jenny freaks. The boyfriend doesn’t look normal. He has a weird light in his eye. His complexion is white and pasty. His nose is a weird shape. He looks at her like a hellion.Has Shari become blind? Can’t she see what she is kissing? What is really going on here? Jenny had better figure it out, or things might get a lot worse than having to mow the lawn on Saturday.Sister is brought to you by Edward Ware Thrillers YA, an imprint of Cheops Books, LLC. If you liked Sister, you will enjoy other young adult thriller novels by Linda Cargill such as Dream, Haunted, Gypsy, Candle, and Bienville.