"“In her head, Elizabeth called what she did ‘The Game.’ The rules were simple: to pretend to be whatever someone else…"

"Without the safety of the flotation device, or the pool bottom beneath her feet, Makayla was suddenly drowning in fear."

"Fire made Joey powerful. He could cause ordinary, boring people to wake in fright. He made the alarms sound. Made the…"

"”He’s a med student,” Cassidy protested. “Someone who is supposed to save lives, not take them.”"

"“But sociopaths don’t see other people as people. Something’s wrong with their wiring,” Nicole said. “They don’t have…"

"“So are you saying,” Allison asked, “that there’s a little bit of sociopath in all of us?”"

"Elizabeth’s gaze roamed over the V of his shoulders, his strong arms, his black hair silvering at the temples. Yum."

"The resume was a work of art. It listed jobs she had never held at health clubs that never existed, promotions that h…"

"Living with Grandma had taught Elizabeth the basic rules. At Grandma’s she had learned that you were either a giver o…"

"“At their ten-year high school reunion, they realized they all had something in common: crime. Cassidy covered it, Ni…"