Maggie has just moved to Midnight Beach. She is the gauche kid driving a Humvee and doesn’t have any friends. The girls in the “in crowd” decide they don’t want anything to do with her unless she meets a test. She must spend the night in the graveyard alone without fleeing. Then they know she has the right stuff. But Maggie doesn’t know until it is too late that this island has a spooky legend associated with it. One hundred years before a planter’s wife was scared of the dark. He lighted a candle by her bed every night. When she died in childbirth he remembered. Every night in the cemetery he lighted the same candle so she would not be alone. In the middle of the night all alone in the graveyard herself, Maggie sees that light. Is the place really haunted or what? Or is it a practical joke or something worse? She had better figure it out or somebody may be lighting a candle for her.
Candle was originally published in German by Cora Verlag, Harper Collins Germany. Now it is brought to you by Edward Ware Thrillers YA, an imprint of Cheops Books, LLC. If you liked Candle, you will enjoy other young adult thrillers by Linda Cargill such as Bienville, Desert, Ancestress, Avalanche, and Bully.
