Charlene keeps her favorite seashell in her bedroom aquarium. She holds it to her ear. It seems to echo with the sound of the sea. Sometimes she can even imagine that it is calling her name. She has a fight fight with her boyfriend and races off for the beach where she goes when she wants to be alone. Somebody is watching her from out in the waves, though they are getting bigger all the time as a storm comes on. Why the man seems to have blond hair and vivid blue eyes! He is calling out her name with an echo that sounds like her seashell. When a wave crashes down upon them she sees the unknown man’s mysterious face and hears the word, “Charlene!”
Echoes was originally published in German by Cora Verlag, now Harper Collins Germany. It is now brought to you by Edward Ware Thrillers YA, an imprint of Cheops Books, LLC. Stories out of the past. If you liked Echoes you will like other young adult horror novels by Linda Cargill such as Midnight, The Lost, Nowhere, Dark Wings, and White.
