Over the next few weeks, Locke has Cassie and Dean practice their profiling instincts on already-solved cases.

Michael and Dean are not friendly with each other, and Dean appears to resent Cassie’s presence in the program. Cassie also meets Special Agent Lacey Locke, an FBI profiler who will train Cassie and the other Natural profiler, Dean. Cassie agrees to join the program and flies to Quantico, Virginia, where she meets the other Naturals, including Lia, a human lie detector, and Sloane, a Natural who is skilled with numbers and patterns. The program is meant to hone Natural skills to help the FBI solve cold cases. Cassie learns that the mysterious boy from the diner, Michael, is a Natural who can read people’s emotions from their gestures and expressions. Cassie learned this skill from her and is proficient at reading people based on their behavior, personality, and environment.Ĭassie meets with Briggs, who offers her a place in an FBI program for “Naturals,” teens who have advanced skills at reading people. She recalls growing up with her single mother, a con artist who studied people and convinced them she was psychic. Although her grandmother is protective and kind, Cassie feels out of place. She has been living with her father’s family while he is away on military duty. Cassie is haunted by the memory of finding the bloody crime scene, though her mother’s body was never found. Cassie wonders if the FBI could have any new information about her mother, who disappeared five years ago and is presumed dead. He leaves her an FBI business card with the contact information for Special Agent Tanner Briggs. At the Colorado diner where she works, Cassie is approached by a teenage boy close to her age.

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