Books like Lifeguard by Richie Tankersley Cusick

Name: Lifeguard
Rating: 2.666666666666 (3 reviews)
Author: Richie Tankersley Cusick

Kelsey’s summer at Beverly Island, a playground for the rich and famous, begins with a hopeful invitation to sun‑kissed beaches and the promise of protection from the local lifeguards. Instead, her lease of paradise is shattered by a mysterious note slipped under her pillow from a vanished girl, the eerie presence of a man who refuses to leave her alone, and a string of suspicious drownings that hint at darker forces at work. As her doubts grow, Kelsey realizes that the lifeguards she once relied on may themselves harbor secrets, and the very people meant to safeguard her could be the source of danger. In this tense mystery, innocence is challenged, and survival depends on questioning everything familiar.

First publish date: 1988

Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure

Authors: Richie Tankersley Cusick

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