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.

Even though Cammie is fluent in fourteen languages and capable of killing a man seven different ways with her bare hands, she has no idea what to do when she meets an ordinary boy who thinks she's an ordinary girl.

So you just...left?' Zach huffed. 'All the cool kids are doing it.

If you can be still enough and common enough, then it's really easy to be invisible.

If anything happens, Marcus will save you. Won't you, Marcus? Hale asked, looking up at the man, who nodded. It would be an honor, Miss.

Sitting there that day, I knew that the only thing I could do was keep putting one foot in front of the other, hoping none of the secrets on my shoulders would make me lose my balance.

He looked as though I'd just run over his pet puppy (though no actual puppies were harmed in the formation of that metaphor).