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scene in town, we couldn’t risk being recognized. “I’m not Jack McKinley,” I said. “I’m Faisal .”
    Aly smiled. “We’ll get through this, Faisal. We’ve been through worse.”
    Worse? Maybe she meant being whisked away from our homes to an island in the middle of nowhere. Or learning we’d inherited a gene that would give us superpowers but kill us by age fourteen. Or being told that the only way to save our lives would be to find seven magic Atlantean orbs hidden in the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World—six of which don’t exist anymore. Or battling an ancient griffin, or being betrayed by our friend Marco, or watching a parallel world be destroyed.
    I don’t know if any of them qualified as worse than what we were about to do.

About the Author

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    PETER LERANGIS is the author of more than one hundred and sixty books, which have sold more than five million copies and been translated into twenty-eight different languages, including three books in the New York Times bestselling series The 39 Clues ( The Sword Thief, The Viper’s Nest , and The Dead of Night ). He is a Harvard graduate with a degree in biochemistry, and he has run a marathon and gone rock climbing during an earthquake—though not on the same day. He lives in New York City with his wife, musician Tina deVaron, and their two sons, Nick and Joe. In his spare time, he likes to eat chocolate.
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