The Oldest House

Jean shoved her way through the crowd until she reached the fence. She was standing near the tour guide doing the feeding. This had to be the least likely place in the whole zoo that someone would shoot her. She tried to relax. As long as the alligators were having lunch, she was safe. What was a hand doing in the middle of her back? She was starting to stumble forward. An alligator had jumped up to catch the food in its mouth. Everybody was cheering at the top of their lungs, jumping up and down, and clapping. Someone had got his hands around her hips. He was lifting her up higher. She was holding onto the railing with one hand and gripping her purse against her chest with the other. She held on as long as she could. She screamed. It was too late. Down below she was looking straight into the open jaws of an alligator. His sharp, knife-like teeth gleamed white. The pink lining of his mouth was exposed, raw, and hungry. His yellow eyes with black slits for pupils twinkled maliciously. He looked like an eating machine in this young adult horror novel by Linda Cargill. It was originally published by Cora Verlag in German, but it now is published in Kindle format by Cheops Books.


Genre: Young Adult Romance