Ann Dávila Cardinal is a Nuyorican polygenre author and educator. Her young-adult horror novels include Five Midnights (winner of an International Latino Book Award and a Bram Stoker finalist), Category Five, and Breakup from Hell. She has had short stories in many horror anthologies, including Other Terrors, Our Shadows Have Claws, Combat Monsters, and the forthcoming Ghosts of Where We Are From. She is founding faculty in the University of San Francisco’s MFA in Writing for Young Readers. Ann lives in a little house in Vermont with a very creepy basement. Her latest young-adult horror novel is You’ve Awoken Her.
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You've Awoken Her
Gabi should be thrilled to be visiting his best friend for the summer. But with its mansions, country clubs, and Ruth’s terrible new boyfriend, Frost Thurston, the Hamptons is the last place he wants to be. And then Gabi witnesses a woman being dragged under the ocean by what looks like a tentacle...
When no one—not the police or anyone else—seems to care, Gabi starts to wonder if maybe the beachside town’s bad vibes are more real than he thought. As the number of “accidental” deaths begins to climb, the Thurston family name keeps rising to the top. And what’s worse is that all the signs point to something lurking beneath the water—something with a hunger for blood.
Can Gabi figure out how the two are intertwined and put an end to the string of deaths... before becoming the water’s next victim?
