Books tagged “Young Adult Paranormal Mystery”

3 books

Nightmare Island Series, Book 2: Dream Walker

Nightmare Island Series

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.

Nightmare Island Series, Book 1: False Awakening

Nightmare Island Series

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.

Nightmare Island Series, Book 3: Night Terrors

Nightmare Island Series

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.