Girl in Three Parts author-Hildegarde H. Swift and the graduating cadets of

and the graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions

Her mother is ill and unlikely to recover

and after years on the road

Get her sorta-friend-sorta-enemy—who is a total Harvard-bound Mama’s boy—to pose as her perfect boyfriend for the summer

he realizes he must train like a wrestler

Girl in Three Parts author-Hildegarde H. Swift and the graduating cadets ofAllegra Elsom is caught in the middle. Some days shes eleven, and others she feels closer to nineteen. Some days she knows too much, and others she feels hopelessly naive. Some days she is split in three, torn between conflicting loyalties to her grandmothers, Matilde and Joy, and her father, Ricknone of whom can stand to be in a room together since the decades old tragedy that hit their family like a wrecking ball. Allegra struggles to make peace in