Books published by publisher Edward Ware Thrillers YA, an imprint of Cheops Books, LLC

Francie has just moved to town and joined the swim team. But the first day she shows up for a meet, two other swimmers in different lanes converge on her. One tries to attack her underwater from one side, the other from the other side. When she gets out, another swimmer approaches her and threatens her. Another is sulking in a corner giving her dirty looks. What is going on? Francie is new here. Why is everyone after her? She had better figure it out fast, or she will not make it past the deep end.Pool 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 Pool, you will enjoy other young adult thrillers by Linda Cargill such as Cave, Shade, Moon, Snow, and Shadows.

Cassidy and her best friend, Betsy, are looking for Butch. Her boyfriend got lost in the Dixie National Forest. The class was on a hike. But Butch had his own agenda. He was looking for the Old Man of the Mountain. Cassidy had told him that was a legend, but Butch did not care. And now he was missing. Who was this Old Man of the Mountain? Stories said that many hikers had met their doom trying to see his face. Disillusioned in love, he had turned his back on the world and had hidden away. He claimed that no one who saw his face would survive. Had he carried out his threat? Would he find Cassidy and Betsy, too? Find out. Read the Old Man thriller.

Angie is troubled by bizarre dreams about fire when she goes to sleep. Her bedroom goes up in flames. Her red prom dress is on fire. A lady is calling to her by name. When she wakes up it is morning. She opens her eyes to the sunlight. This has been going on ever since her mother mysteriously disappeared several weeks ago. She and her father have hired detectives, but they cannot find a trace. Angie’s boyfriend asks if he can help. But what can be done? The next morning when she wakes up from the same nightmare, there is a black mark on her nightgown. It is singed — by fire. How is such a thing possible? Angie had better figure it all out soon or she may be missing next.

Joanne and her friends pile into Ken's Corvette with a picnic basket and climb to the top of Mount Lemmon at nine thousand feet enshrouded in pine forests. Let the senior school picnic commence! They start playing hide-and-seek. Joanne races back into the woods to conceal herself behind a tall pine. She trips over a human skull. It is just lying there on the ground staring back at her with vacant eyes.A thug points a gun in her back and threatens her that if she tells anyone what she saw she will die. He backs her up against another tree and makes her count to one hundred before she opens her eyes. The thug and the skull are gone!What is the lone skull doing on the mountain top? Who was killed? How long ago? Joanne finds herself ensnared in an elaborate intrigue from which she can only hope to emerge alive.

Cissy is not the most popular girl in the senior class. That honor belongs to Regina Simpson. The wall flower on the night of the big school party ends up inviting other losers like herself to a consolation party at her house. Suddenly the lights go out. Sirens wail down the street. The radio announcer comes on and proclaims that Regina Simpson has been killed at the big dance. How did it happen? Her dress caught fire . . .That night when Cissy goes to bed she pauses for a minute at her vanity and looks deep into her eyes. She catches sight of two flames, shake her head, and goes to sleep. But when she wakes up and looks into the mirror again she sees not her old self, her old face, but the dead girl Regina Simpson.

Edith can’t go to school without finding Stripes. She and her lab, Tricks, search through the backyard with no luck. She sees a van parked in front of her driveway. They dog dashes aboard. She follows. The door slams behind them. They are headed up the road and out of town past her grocery store and even her high school where she was supposed to take a math exam today. She screams and yells but the driver won’t stop.As the van drives farther and farther north, only gradually does it dawn on Edith that she’s been kidnapped. It doesn’t make any sense to her that the girl in the cab is Eliza Fitzhugh, her next door neighbor from up the street. It makes even less sense that the driver looks just like some guy that she saw long ago last summer in a movie of her parents’ wedding from twenty-five years before.She finds herself transported all the way to a place she has never heard about before called Spirit Island. What do people there want with her? Edith had better figure it all out soon, or she might end up dead.If you liked Murder on Spirit Island, you will also enjoy other young adult thrillers, supernatural horror tales, time travel novels, and romantic historic thrillers by Dora Benley including Back to Venice, Book of the Dead, Doom of Egypt, Rose Red, and Julia: A Romance.

“Drop dead!" says seventeen-year-old Jemma Parker. Matt Edwards, her ex-boyfriend at Virginia Beach High, is trying to brow beat her into going out on another date. When he won't accept “no" for an answer, she gets angry. "Be ready in half an hour," Matt hangs up the phone.The doorbell rings. It's a policeman. "Miss Parker, I'm afraid I don't have very good news for you," the officer said. "Your friend Matt Edwards has just been in an accident. I believe he was on his way here tonight. He's dead." Jemma can't believe it as she gapes at the living room chair in which he used to sit. It was as if she killed him! In the middle of the night she wakes up. The phone is ringing. "Jem, I'll be there," the voice says. It sounds like Matt. Is this a nightmare? He's supposed to be dead!

Misty and her girlfriends are commiserating with each other about their parents’ divorces. Even worse, her father just got remarried. Her new stepsister that she has never met before is moving in her house. Not only is Helen all too attractive, putting Misty in the shadows, she has a huge collection of tropical fish. If that wasn’t enough to creep her out, no sooner are the fish tanks set up than Misty imagines the fish are looking at her. She thinks she sees the faces of people she knows on the fish. Is it a case of denial about her parents’ divorce or something far more sinister? Misty had better find out before she totally loses her mind.

May finds herself transported to what looks like the middle of the Sahara Desert just outside Yuma near the Imperial Sand Dunes. Her father is supposed to work at a nearby military base. They move into a house near the dunes that used to be inhabited by the pioneers a century or more ago. At night she hears sighs and moans. She thinks she sees a white lady with long fingers and long hair out in the desert at night. Sometimes when the wind blows she hears her screams. At night she feels the lady touching her cheeks.May had better get out of the desert fast. The winds are blowing harder all the time. A giant sandstorm picks her up off her feet. Even worse, the howling winds seem to have the voice of that woman from long ago.

Merle and her best friend are sailing around Lake Powell in Arizona on vacation when they run into another boat full of guys. They party only to discover that all the boys have tattoos, and the tattoos are of dragons! Why? The boys tell tales of treasure marked by a dragon symbol that has been buried around the lake. It dates from long ago, in fact from the time of the conquistadors. They describe the hidden danger that is posed by thugs who are trying to find it. “You mean pirates?” asks Merle aghast. They nod and say that’s why they have grouped together in a merry little band to fight back. What’s worse, as they sail past a cove the sun practically blinds Merle, and she thinks she sees what else but a shimmering vision of a blood red dragon on the wall of the cave. Things are getting dangerous around here, too dangerous for Merle. If she doesn’t get off the lake soon, she might be dead.If you liked this young adult mystery thriller, you will enjoy other thrillers and teen spook stories by Linda Cargill.

Letitia can’t shake her nightmare. Every night on the trip west to her new home in St. Mary, Montana where her parents are setting up a ski resort, she hears a lady singing. Around the dream lady loom crystal chandeliers and dark wooden mahogany panels on the walls. She is sitting at a player piano. The dreams get more and more vivid as the days go on and Letitia gets closer to the snow capped Rocky Mountains. She sees more and more details of the room, the stairs, and other people around the lady at the piano. They are whispering. The whispering gets louder. They seem to be talking about a murder.What do they have to do with her? Her family? Her new home? Whose murder are they talking about? She had better figure it out before she gets there —- or else it might be her demise.

Laura has just turned seventeen —- in a New Orleans orphanage. This is her last chance to find parents. Someone named Bienville wants to adopt her. But who are they? They look elegant and well-dressed, but they are as old as grandparents.She has had a dream about them as if somehow she knew them before long ago when she could not remember. They whisper to her in her sleep about a past life when she was someone else. Why else would she have been brought to the orphanage as a baby dressed in fine silks and with one hundred thousand dollars in an envelope under her silken pillow?Should she go with the Bienvilles to their elegant house in New Orleans or should she marry her boyfriend, Robert, who wants her to come to New York? Robert she knows and trusts. But the allure and danger of the unknown beckons. Should she fight back? Or should she allow herself to be tempted? Laura is aware that this might be the most important decision she will ever make in her life — or perhaps in two lives.