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

She pulled away and looked at him. 'I kissed you and you left.' When Kat heard the pounding, she thought it was the beating of her heart. It was too loud, she thought. Hale was going to hear it; he was going to see it; and he was going to know how much power he had to hurt her.

But I wasn't the girl I'd been when I left, and I knew it.

The Operative tried to implement the Purusey breathing technique, which has been proven effective at fooling polygraphs. There is no conclusive evidence as to whether it is effective at masking the internal lie detectors of fifteen-year-old boys.

If we hadn't hated him a lot, we might have liked him a little at that moment. But we did. So we didn't.

You'd better not be trying to steal that," she said. The boy shrugged and reached for the small rolling suitcase at her feet. "I wouldn't dare." "Because I'm an excellent yeller." "I don't doubt it." "And fighter. My cousin gave me this nail file... the thing's just like a switchblade.

For all the days of our lives," we finished and I felt a little like a character in one of my grandma's soap operas.