Excuse me, but aren't boys forbidden on this floor?' Macey said on our way to the suite. 'That's the advantage of being the only boy,' he (Zach) said. 'No one actually comes right out and makes rules like that.

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

If you don't want to be a victim, don't act like one." It was fairly safe to assume that that was the first time anyone had ever spoken to W. W. Hale the Fifth in that manner. Kat was also fairly certain it wouldn't be the last. "I might lose my grandmother's company." Kat gave a smile and held Hale tight. "You won't lose me.

It was so rare to find someone who was both so young and so wise, both so fresh and so jaded.

The Bagshaws aren't boys. They're bombs with very colorful fuses.

Learn her skills, honor her sword, and keep her secrets.

Kat had been picking things up since her third birthday, when Hamish and Angus's father took them all to the circus because he needed to "borrow" an elephant.