Easy there," Zach said when I stumbled into him. "Now's probably not the time to get handsy. You might want to control yourself.

It felt as if maybe the curse had lifted, the tide had shifted, but then the breeze picked up and a skeet took a very unfortunate turn. Seconds later, Angus was pulling his shot far to the right, shooting a large hole in the second-story galley not ten feet above Marcus's head.

But the heaviest things, I think, are the secrets. They can drown you if you let them.

All these years I'd thought being a spy was challenging. Turns out, being a girl is the tricky part.

you're the gallagher girl. figure it out."- zach

You cannot con an honest man.

Trust. We stake our lives on it, but it's a subject that not even the Gallagher Academy can teach. When do you let your guard down? Who do you let in? And I knew at that moment, as I sat beside my mother, bathing in the warm spring light, that those were the questions a good spy never stops asking