Nightmare Island Series
Ask anyone in Davenport, Connecticut about Flicker Island
and watch their eyes go glassy, as if they had fallen under some spell. There
is nothing special about it, they say. It is just an island. Then the subject
changes, and not one of them notices it happened. Mia Burke's own parents do it
at their own dinner table.
She is sixteen, she edits the school paper, and she asks one
more question than she should, every time. She is still asking when Tegan
Hathaway is found dead in the woods, and every answer she turns up leads back
out to the water.
To the mainland, Flicker Island is a quiet community where
the citizens live simple lives and rarely venture from their insular shores. To
the people who live there, it is a place where lies become reality, storms are
conjured from a cloudless sky, treachery is second nature, and your dreams can
kill you. No word of their powers is ever allowed to reach the mainland, and
for centuries none ever has. Then a sixteen-year-old with a school paper
started asking questions, and would not stop.
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Book 1: False Awakening
Everyone in Davenport knows Flicker Island is out there. Not one of them can tell Mia Burke a single true thing about it. Ask, and you will watch a perfectly ordinary adult go glassy-eyed as though somebody had thrown a switch, say there is nothing special about it, and change the subject without ever knowing they did. Mia is sixteen, she has just been handed a school paper that has never run a real story, and she is the only person in town who has noticed. Then a girl from her class is found dead in the woods, and every answer Mia turns up leads back out to the island.
Book 2: Dream Walker
Mrs. Temple arrives at Davenport High the Monday after Halloween, and by the end of her first week Mia Burke has lost the school paper, her grades and the benefit of every doubt. A-grade work comes back with a C and a page of reasonable notes. Her parents take a call from a teacher who sounds worried about a bright girl who is slipping. Every adult in town arrives at the same conclusion, and every one of them is being kind: after the autumn Mia has had, of course she is struggling. Mia is not imagining it and she cannot prove it. The one thing she is sure of is that on her first morning, Mrs. Temple looked past a room full of students at the two who came from the island.
Book 3: Night Terrors
On her first night on Flicker Island, Mia Burke dreams that her boyfriend puts his hands around her throat and does not let go. She wakes an instant before the end, gasping, in a house full of people who have promised to keep her safe. The dream comes back the next night, and it follows her home. Getting to that island took weeks of asking. Ian and his twin sister refused, walked her to every class between them, and would not say what they were guarding her from. Then they changed their minds, because the Cranes needed to see who would react to a mainland girl standing on their beach. Neither twin would call that bait. Mia did, and then she said yes anyway.