Confessions of a Dangerous Girl
#1 New Release in Teen & Young Adult Spy Story eBooks on Amazon (2023)
Selected for Kirkus Reviews’ 40 Indies Worth Discovering (2024)
“Twisty, action-packed and fun to read ... Emma is a bluntly humorous narrator, think of a young Deadpool ... [or] a young Villanelle.” — Love Reading.com (an Indie Books We Love August 2023 Pick)
“An exciting, plot-driven thriller for young adults, but it’s equally a character-driven examination of the inner world of a quintessential cool girl ... An engaging novel with a consistently smart, funny, and self-reflective narrator.” — Kirkus Reviews
A darkly funny YA spy thriller about a teenage assassin who can fake almost anything except friendship.
She was trained to kill. High school is the first mission that might change her.
Emma Garthright can break into a secure compound, disable an armed target, and lie without blinking. Making a friend may be the first mission she cannot complete.
Raised at a secret CIA boarding school that trains dangerous teenagers as assassins, sixteen-year-old Emma is sent undercover at an ordinary Maryland high school. To reach her target, she must earn a place on the Model United Nations team—and win the trust of Susie Robinson, the most relentlessly decent person Emma has ever met.
Emma plans to fake empathy, manipulate Susie, and complete the mission. Then the fake friendship starts feeling real. Worse, Emma’s ruthless ex arrives with orders of his own.
Now Emma must choose between the mission she was trained for and the people she was never supposed to care about.
A complete first adventure in The Emma Garthright Files. Future Emma Garthright stories are planned.
Publisher: William Rookwood
| Release Date:
September 1, 2023
| Page count:
304
My name is Emma Garthright. I’m sixteen years old, and I was born in Maryland. I have blonde hair and gray eyes, which I’m told is a striking combination. I like cross-country skiing, and skydiving, and expensive sneakers, and nature shows. When I was six years old, I tried to strangle my little brother with the pull cord from the blinds on our living room window. Ever since, I’ve lived at the Early Institute for Children and Teens, a boarding school for kids diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder, the polite term for what most people call psychopaths. The Early Institute is named after its founder, Dr. Warren Early. It’s located in the middle of nowhere in Wyoming, which is an entire state located in the middle of nowhere.
