She discovers that Justin left the note in Beth's room and that he has been listening to her telephone conversations. Kelsey breaks into Isaac's houseboat and discovers items belonging to Beth, but before she can gather any of this evidence, a rat startles her and she flees the houseboat. Kelsey develops romantic feelings for Justin, Eric's shy younger son and the brother of Neale and Beth, although she is also drawn to Neale despite his cold nature. A creepy old man with an eyepatch, Isaac (a resident of Beverly Island off-season), keeps yelling warnings at Kelsey, terrifying her into thinking that he's some kind of a pervert who may have attacked and killed Beth. Kelsey discovers a deceased body, but when she alerts her peers to it, the body has disappeared, leading the other teens to doubt Kelsey's sincerity. She fears for her own life after she hears someone in her bedroom while she's alone in Eric's house, and later when she's about to leave the shower she hears bizarre noises and notices wet footprints on the floor of the shower room, along with seaweed from the beach.
Kelsey begins to suspect that Beth was murdered, but is hesitant to tell her peers. Kelsey finds a note hidden in Beth's bedroom that says "I think someone is going to kill me". It is decided by the search party later on that Beth must have drowned while swimming on the beach, although no corpse is ever recovered.
Kelsey is put off by Neale, Eric's son and Beth's brother Neale is cold, aloof and bitter, and Kelsey doesn't trust him. A search party has been called in to look for the girl after her belongings are found on the beach meanwhile Kelsey befriends the other teenagers on the island, including Donna, a preppy girl, and Skip, a wealthy and vain boy who works as a lifeguard. Upon arriving on the island, Kelsey and her mother are informed by a horrified Eric that his only daughter, Beth, is missing. Kelsey Tanner, a young girl who recently grieved the death of her biological father, is given a summer vacation trip to Beverly Island (fictional location) with her mother and her mother's boyfriend, Eric, who has several children roughly Kelsey's age. The book received negative reviews from critics, but in recent decades has become admired for its original first edition cover, which featured a wavy blue-and-orange aquatic title font and an artistic illustration of a creepy male lifeguard on the beach, popular as an example of nostalgic seapunk aesthetics and retro pop culture art. Written as a standalone novel, The Lifeguard was taken in by Scholastic and published as book #3 under the imprint Point Horror. The story follows Kelsey, a teenage girl on a holiday vacation, who begins witnessing the unfolding signs of a serial murderer who drowns their victims in the sea. The Lifeguard is a 1988 young adult horror thriller novel by Richie Tankersley Cusick.
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