Books with author Linda Cargill

Midge likes to walk beside the waterfalls near her house in the Rockies. But suddenly she hears a girl calling to her from the falls, asking for help. How is such a thing possible? She looks all around and finds a girl her own age stranded on a rocky ledge. She brings her home. The girl doesn’t seem to remember who she is, but she makes herself at home. She becomes a fixture in the upstairs bathroom taking baths and showers and talking to people on the cell phone. When Midge puts her ear to the door she hears other girls talking back but it sounds as if they are underwater! She still hears voices late at night outside. She looks out the window. The voices seem to be coming from the falls only a stone’s throw away. In fact, the falls seem to be getting ever closer to the house. The next day there is water in the living room. They have to bucket it out. What is going on? Midge had better figure it out soon, or she might get washed away.If you liked Bather, you will enjoy other young adult thrillers by Linda Cargill such as Reborn, Missing, Canyon, Rocks, and Movie.

During Renee’s slumber party the lights go out. A big storm rolls in from the sea. Her friend starts reading from the Biblical story of Jonah and the Whale by candlelight. Just then a storm surge comes through her living room window and practically sweeps Renee away. The next morning Renee hears that a big gray whale with luminous yellow eyes has been washed ashore on the beach. She goes down to investigate. On the beach she runs into a young man with a ragged appearance who warns her away and tells her never to come back. He waves his arms at her and chases her off the beach. Is he crazy? Or is there some truth in what he tells her --- he has spent time in the belly of the whale itself? And if its true, what does the whale want with Renee in this young adult horror or supernatural novel.

Doreen has to be up by the crack of dawn to let in the neighbors and others, including a police officer, who are all waiting for 4:00PM to find out if they will all be millionaires or paupers. Her father and mother are presiding over the party and show everyone to a seat on the fancy new furniture. The tension mounts as the hour of judgement nears. Doreen remembers how her grandmother warned her father not to move to Arizona only two months ago. There was something in the family's past from one hundred years ago about shady goings on in this pioneer state which had just become part of the Union. Funny how her father trusted all his money to a man he didn't know as well as all of his neighbor's money, and now this. Could it be revenge out of the past?Only Josh isn't here. Her new boyfriend told her last night that he had an idea. She wondered if he was pursuing it right now. Somebody had better do something or they will probably all be finished in only a couple of hours by greedy people who want to rob them of everything they have as the clock ticks down to 4PM.

Nerissa feels that somebody is watching her all the time after she moves to the rain forest of Washington state. Eyes seem to stare at her from the tall trees as she drives past. There is something more than curious about them. They have large roots that protrude from the ground. These roots seem to be in the shapes of people. Many have the signature She Who Watches engraved in the wood beside them. Who is She Who Watches?The heroine finds a new friend, Lela, when her parents set up business at the Rainforest Café. Lela shows Nerissa about the forest. She shows her how she lives inside a big, carved out cedar tree. She wears moss for clothes and leads a simple life. Lela acts very nice, but why does she not have any relatives? Why does no one seem to live in the forest besides her? What is this strange potion that she is brewing in her pot? And why does she have hair with a greenish tint that is almost the consistency of the moss itself?Nerissa is about to find out when she looks in a pond and sees that her hair and her skin now look like that, too. Is it the strange weather in the rain forest, or is it something else?Originally published by Cora Verlag in Germany, now Harper Collins Germany, this young adult supernatural or horror novel is brought to you by Edward Ware Thrillers YA, an imprint of Cheops Books, LLC. If you liked the story, try The Surfer and Pool Party, also by Linda Cargill.

Tess has just been forced to move to Tucson from Los Angeles against her will because her father works for the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum. She feels out of place and wants to go home as she listens to coyotes howl at night. Somebody else evidently agrees. She picks up the phone. A voice that won’t identify itself calls her California and tells her he sees everything she is doing in the room. He warns Tess that she had better get out of town or he will murder her. Talk about homesickness and feeling unwelcome! Tess had better figure out who isn’t the good neighbor, or she could soon be dead.Desert is brought to you by Edward Ware Thrillers YA, an imprint of Cheops Books, LLC. If you liked Desert, you will enjoy other young adult thrillers by Linda Cargill including Ancestress, Avalanche, Bully, Dig, and Pool.

Vicki and Sue have driven to the end of the road. Their car falls into a pothole. When they climb out to try to get the tire to move, Vicki sees a glacier on the mountain. She gets out Mark’s last postcard. It’s an exact match. This was the last place she heard from him, the town of Screaming Woman beside the Screaming Woman Glacier.Vicki embarks on a quest to locate her boyfriend. She discovers that the hotel staff have all of Mark’s things, including his watch, his shoes, and his book. A girl gets pushed off the glacier and murdered the day she arrives. What kind of gang of desperadoes lurks here? Vicki had better find out. Someone is after her next. She had better find out what is going on soon or she may disappear just as her boyfriend did.

School’s out. Opal and her friend Fern are looking for summer jobs without success. It even gives Opal bad dreams. A lady keeps calling her on the phone but she never gets hired. They apply for every fast food position in the shopping center. In the parking lot a dude is handing out windshield advertisements about jobs in Alberta, Canada at a swanky resort. The notices are signed by a lady named Jasper. Who is Jasper? Opal looks at the dude and sees a precious jasper stone on a gold band dangling from his neck. When she stares at the stone eyes are staring back at her —- the same eyes she saw in her nightmare.Jasper is brought to you by Edward Ware Thrillers YA, an imprint of Cheops Books, LLC. If you liked Jasper, you will enjoy Linda Cargill’s other young adult thrillers such as Dear Diary, Gold Hair, Thorns, Attic, and Lighthouse.

Roxie has a dream of a pen pal. She’s been writing to Hayden since ninth grade. He has sent her tons of photos of himself and the ski shop where he works in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. She often thinks about him at night while she is asleep and has had funny dreams about turning into an icicle. For where she lives in Arizona she has never so much as seen a snowflake.But when she finally arrives in town, the snowstorm comes down fast and fiercely. Her family car almost gets buried in the snow. She remembers her dream about getting turned into an icicle. Is it coming true? And why does she hear a voice that sounds like Hayden? Where it is coming from? Is it her imagination? Or is it something far more sinister.Storm is brought to you by Edward Ware Thrillers YA, an imprint of Cheops Books, LLC. If you liked Storm, you will like other young adult thrillers by Linda Cargill including Mirror, Doubles, Bather, Reborn, and Missing.

Chelsea is trapped on an island in the middle of a lake in Wyoming. She has gone here for the summer while her parents are on safari in Africa. Her Aunt Chelsea and her maids are the only people Chelsea sees for weeks. There is no one her own age like her friends back home. Even worse she does not want to venture outside. There is a boiling cauldron not far away from her aunt's house where the maids rumor that an evil spirit lives. She does not feel like a teenager in America anymore. She feels like a girl imprisoned in a fairytale haunted by demons without a prince to help her escape.Island is brought to you by Edward Ware Thrillers YA, an imprint of Cheops Books, LLC. If you liked Island you will enjoy other young adult thrillers by Linda Cargill such as My Aunt, the Witch, Jasper, Black Lake, Dear Diary, and Gold Hair.

Nina and her best friend, Trixie, want to be archaeologists. They find a summer job on a mesa in Colorado digging up Indian ruins and catapult themselves into a murder mystery. The lead archaeologist, Dr. Van Der Meer, has just been murdered. His son, Josh Jr., has just taken over his millionaire father's dig. But queer things are going on at 7000 feet. Other workers are being murdered and disappearing. The late archaeologist's daughter is crippled in her attempts to set things straight. But Josh Jr. seems to be hiding something up his sleeve. When Nina and Trixie try to help, Josh Jr. threatens to arrest them. Nina had better get out of here before she gets pushed off a mountain ledge herself.

Lindsey lives in a flower garden, a rose garden to be more exact. Her father cultivates white roses. One night she dreams about a dark shadow in a hooded cloak who invades the garden dropping red rose petals instead. She chases Lindsey and she gets caught in a tomb of rosebushes and thorns. She can’t escape until she wakes up only to find out that her father’s garden really has been invaded by red rose petals. They seem to be blowing in on a storm from the sea. And the robe that the dream image wore is standing there starting at her sending chills up her spine. When she grabs it nothing is there. It is caught on a thorn. But it keeps on appearing again and again until somebody at play practice steps on a particularly nasty thorn. Is a prankster at work? Who is invading the garden? The same girl who is stealing her boyfriend? Or it it something worse?Thorns is brought to you by Edward Ware Thrillers YA, an imprint of Cheops Books, LLC. If you liked Thorns you will like Linda Cargill’s other young adult thriller novels such as Gold Hair, Attic, Lighthouse, Ghost Town, and Cat Sleuth.

Kate has invited all her friends over to her bedroom to pull an all-nighter finishing a science project. But when they all dig in to have breakfast first one friend, then the other tries to keep her away from the newspaper. They turn off the radio. On the way to school they try to convince her to go somewhere else. Another friend shows up to block her from getting out of the car in the parking lot. Then she sees it. Johnathan, her old boyfriend who disappeared and could not be found at the beginning of their senior year, suddenly has turned up again. In fact, he's the tour guide for their field trip to Colonial Williamsburg that day! Worse, he doesn't even recognize her.What could be going on here? It isn't possible that Johnathan would not recognize her after only a few months. But he acts like a complete stranger! What has Johnathan been up to? Is it something illegal? Is that why he is so standoffish? Kate had better figure it out soon before the police show up and cart both her and Johnathan away.Stranger is brought to you by Edward Ware Thrillers YA, an imprint of Cheops Books, LLC. If you liked Stranger you will enjoy other young adult thrillers by Linda Cargill such as Sister, Haircut, Whispers, Nameless, and Blues.