Books with author Linda Cargill

In this young adult romantic thriller for teens the class president gets the idea that each girl should contribute $5.00 if she wants to get a chance to kiss Andre, the dream beau of the school, along with all the other members of the popular boy's cycling team. Nikki has had a crush on Andre for ages. She thinks it's her lucky day when they spin the bottle and it points at her. She's in seventh heaven when she kisses Andre in the cafeteria in front of the whole school. But when she moves on to Phil, he falls dead at her feet. What happened? Nikki finds out during the bicycle trip to False Cape State Park that Andre's not what she expected at all. He's a vampire. She has to learn the hard way in this young adult supernatural thriller --- never kiss a vampire!This novel was originally published in German by Cora Verlag and then by Harlequin Germany, now Harper Collins Germany. Now it is brought to you by Edward Ware Thrillers YA, an imprint of Cheops Books, LLC. Stories out of the past.

Ned leans across the table at dinner and tells Doreen that he has a surprise for her. All night long at the movie he won’t tell her what it is. He drops her off at her house and kisses her good-night. She tosses and turns in anticipation. On her locker the next morning is a note telling her to meet him at Sunwapta Falls at three o’clock.Doreen can barely make it through the day. She cuts out of classes early and drives to the waterfalls. But when she reaches it Ned and another boy are fighting with switchblades. Ned falls over the edge into the falls. She flees. But that night as she cowers in her room she gets a phone call. a voice tells her that she knows too much for her own good. She’d better keep her trap shut or she will soon be as dead as Ned.If you liked Death at Sunwapta Falls you will also like Voice in the Falls which shares the same setting in Alberta, Canada in the far north.

Louise takes out her binoculars and studies the face of the huge snowcapped peak outside her cabin. She spies a black dot that seems to move. Sure enough it turns out to be a person. Her parents have gone to the Ice Station to study glaciers. She is keeping house. But why is the person descending the mountain and coming closer? She phones the Ice Station and they tell her to get out of there. They hang up right away. Do they know something she doesn’t? How is she going to survive hundreds of miles from civilization all by herself with only her Labrador Retriever and her cat to help her? Louise had better figure out what to do soon. Whoever it is is coming closer by the minute.

Sandy and her parents are opening a vintage clothing shop in Idaho Falls on her seventeenth birthday. Her parents sell clothes from the 1950s, and their house is decorated that way, too. Her bedroom walls are covered with vintage movie posters from that era. Is that why she gets carried away and starts to dream about a beau dressed in 1950s clothes driving a motorcycle? He only visits her at night in her dreams. It gets so intense that Sandy longs to go to bed just to go on a date. Other boys seem dull by comparison, and even her best friend can’t get her to go out anymore.One morning when she gets up there is a cut on her neck. It gets worse as the days go by. Has she injured herself? Has some animals gotten through her open windows at night? Sandy had better figure out what is going on and why her dreams are so compelling before she gets lost in them and never wakes up again.Dream was first 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 Dream, you will enjoy other young adult thriller novels by Linda Cargill such as Candle, Bienville, Desert, Ancestress, and Avalanche.

Jan has had a huge blow up with her mother. She decides to run away from home and go to Florida with her boyfriend. But when she tries to get him to leave the restaurant where he works and come with her, he refuses. He has to stay with his mother. So she tries to go it alone. But at the first shopping center she comes to she witnesses a murder. A girl is pushed into the fountain by a hooded bandit. At the beach she tries to rescue someone out at sea only to be pulled under by a malicious prankster and nearly killed herself. Jan is all alone. Will she make it by herself? Or should she throw in the towel before she ends up six feet under.Alone 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 Alone, you will enjoy other young adult thrillers by Linda Cargill such as Vanished, Piano Player, Shipwreck, Gondola, and Nighty-Night.

Sheila sleepwalks to the lake next to her house called by the locals the Black Lake. She wakes up standing in the muck at night with a moose staring into her face in the Wyoming back country where she lives. But that isn't the worst of it. She hears men slogging along through the wet ground. She hides herself in the reeds to watch two goons dump something into the water. She approaches slowly after they are gone. It's a dead body, the body of a young girl! Is she still dreaming or is this for real? If she closes her eyes, maybe she will wake up safe back in her bed. Anything can happen at Black Lake. Nightmares become real. But she had better figure out what to do next or she will end up in the lake herself.Originally published in German by Cora Verlag, Black Lake is now brought to you by Edward Ware Thrillers YA, an imprint of Cheops Books, LLC. If you liked Black Lake you will enjoy Linda Cargill's other young adult thrillers such as Jasper, Dear Diary, Gold Hair, Thorns, and Attic.

Dawn Defoe wakes up on the morning of the Medieval Banquet and Festival to find out that nothing is as it is supposed to be. Not only have her friends not shown up at her house to help her bring the medieval ornaments and decorations to the high school. She has just had a weird dream about a lady from the Middle Ages who looks exactly like her! Things only get more complicated as the day progresses. A policeman almost arrests her for running her car into the side of London Bridge, which as been transported from London to the Cape Fear Coast of the Pacific Ocean to spur real estate sales and business activity. He claims that he cited her before for similar traffic violations which she does not remember. Her girlfriends seem to be angry at her, walking out on her in their medieval costumes and slamming the door. Her boyfriend breaks up with her for no reason at all. A stranger dressed for the festival as an executioner in a black mask chases her about with an ax and threatens to kill her. He warns her never to do what she did this morning again. What did she do? Get up on the wrong side of bed? Dawn increasingly feels as if there is somebody else going around town impersonating her. But why? What does the stranger want of her? And even still, why does she go to sleep at night only to relive the next chapter in the saga of the medieval lady who looks like Dawn? Dawn had better figure out the answer pretty soon or her pretty blonde head could be parted from her body.

KEEP OUT! ALL TRESPASSERS WILL BE SHOT!What!Jackie slammed on the brakes. It wasn't just a sign. It was a wooden barricade. It seemed to be erected all the way across the road. The pavement seemed to end, and only a dirt road continued after that. Her car had nowhere to go but straight into the barricade.Her Ferrari brakes could usually stop on a dime. But this was a slick, rain-drenched road, more water than pavement. She skidded all the way across the roadway as she turned the steering wheel sharply to the right.Just then Jackie spotted him. There was a guy's face leering at her from behind a nearby tree trunk. He scowled more darkly than the clouds covering the sky. His eyes looked like the center of the storm itself. He was glaring straight at her. His lips were moving. He seemed to be muttering under his breath, what exactly she couldn't determine.But even worse yet — unbelievably — this creep, whoever he was, seemed to be about ready to carry out the sentence on the sign. He had a rifle aimed straight at her. He was about to shoot.No Return was first published in German by Cora Verlag, now Harper Collins Germany. It is brought to you now by Edward Ware Thrillers YA, an imprint of Cheops Books, LLC. Stories out of the past. If you liked No Return you will like other young adult suspense novels by Linda Cargill such as Algernon, Echoes, Midnight, White, and Nowhere.

"Now, class, for the final assignment of your senior year I'm going to ask for something really different. We're going to start keeping a dream diary." With those words Ms. Williamson launches into a study of dreams for her psychology class. But it opens a Pandora's Box for Nicki. She starts having nightmares about a red-haired guy her own age running down a dusty road in the middle of nowhere crying out her name. When she wakes up in the middle of the night with her heart pounding, the image seems so vivid that she fears that the boy's hiding in her bedroom somewhere. She turns on all the lights, searches behind her drapes, and falls asleep clutching her pillow. Nicki starts seeing this guy for real everywhere in this young adult thriller!

Josie is suntanning herself at Long Beach in Washington state when her straw hat flies off her head. A seagull catches it and Josie chases him through the sand dunes back away from the beach. By the time she catches up with her hat she has stumbled upon a ghost town from one hundred years ago. The church is deserted. So is the bar and each house that she sees. This place takes on an eerie quality all its own as night comes on and people from long ago come to life and go about their nightly tasks. Josie is lost trapped in a time warp. How does she get back to the beach? She’d better figure it out soon or she, too, could become one of the lost.

The rock sticking up out of the sea is always in Arlene’s face ever since her father has moved to coastal Oregon to work for Parks and Recreation and post signs about tsunamis. She keeps on having nightmares about the rock. Now she hears that there is a curse associated with it. Long ago some pirates buried a treasure there. That must account for why she constantly sees people swimming out to it and prowling around it. Even worse, a beach bum named Noah hangs around it. Then he starts coming after her. Is Noah a pirate himself? What does he really want? His very name means a wanderer on the seas. Arlene had better figure it out soon or she will end up as dead as the bones reputed to be buried in the rock.If you liked Noah you will enjoy other young adult thrillers by Linda Cargill such as My Aunt, The Witch, Island, Jasper, Black Lake, and Dear Diary.

Jean wakes up from a nightmare about an old hag in a burial shroud with long, sharp nails and a skeletal face. No wonder! She’s about to have an interview for a summer job in archaeology digging at the site of the Oldest House in St. Augustine, Florida. The lady who is supposed to hire her, Dr. Whitney, is tops in her field of New World Columbian archaeology. But when Jean lands the job and starts work at the house, a cleaning lady lets her in and shows her around. Jean is astounded by her face full of wrinkles. She looks like the oldest person Jean has ever seen. In fact, she resembles the hag in the nightmare. Is it her imagination? What could be going on? Jean had better figure it out or one of these humid Florida summer nights she might just die of fright.