She wakes up in the darkness of a car trunk bumping along the highway. She smells gasoline. She hears the car radio blaring. Ropes tie her wrists and her ankles. The next thing she knows she is in a car repair shop. Two teenage boys are talking. She knocks on the trunk to gain their attention. But when they let her out, she does not recognize them. Worse, she does not remember her own name or what she is doing here in the small western town of Hole. People approach her and make her offers. They slip her money. They think she has influence with one of the teenage guys, Clem, who seems to be in some sort of "secret business". She had better figure out what sort of "business" pretty soon. Someone is out to murder her. A car nearly runs her down in the street. An intruder creeps through the hedges outside the house where people take her in. She must find out how this strange guy named Clem and she are linked when outwardly they seem to have nothing in common. It is worth her life not to remain the no name girl forever!
Synopsis
She wakes up in the darkness of a car trunk bumping along the highway. She smells gasoline. She hears the car radio blaring. Ropes tie her wrists and her ankles. The next thing she knows she is in a car repair shop. Two teenage boys are talking. She knocks on the trunk to gain their attention. But when they let her out, she does not recognize them. Worse, she does not remember her own name or what she is doing here in the small western town of Hole. People approach her and make her offers. They slip her money. They think she has influence with one of the teenage guys, Clem, who seems to be in some sort of "secret business". She had better figure out what sort of "business" pretty soon. Someone is out to murder her. She must find out how this strange guy named Clem and she are linked when outwardly they seem to have nothing in common. It is worth her life not to remain the no name girl forever!
About the Creator
Linda Cargill attended Bryn Mawr, Duke, and the University of Virginia.
She graduated magna cum laude and received graduate degrees in English and in English Education. She has written thirty-three young adult horror novels and murder mystery thrillers for Scholastic, Harper Collins, and the German publisher, Cora Verlag. School Library Journal called The Surfer "a taut and evocative story" and said that the "readers will become immersed in the challenge between good vs. evil." It also said of Pool Party: "YAs who love thrillers may enjoy mysterious twists. The story has romance, a weeping ghost, a doll that changes facial expressions, a buried treasure, and more."
