by Gwenda Bond
“Shut up.” I laughed. “I worry about that too. Well, not with me. With you.”
“I don’t want to see anyone else,” he said. “I do think of this as a date. And I think all the time about when we’ll finally be able to stand across from each other in real life.”
“Wow.” My heart was beating ridiculously fast. But I didn’t feel like it was stupid anymore. My heart was smart. It had knowledge. “You totally stole my thunder.”
“You know the mural?” he said. “That’s how I see you. A hero. I want to be the kind of guy you deserve.”
“I would tell you to stop,” I whispered, “but I’m enjoying this.”
I wanted to know what would happen next.
He reached out and took both my hands in his, and we smiled. Just like that, we were floating up from the turret, flying up into the red sky together, holding on to each other. I didn’t know which of us leaned in toward the other first.
We kissed.
And I knew my feet wouldn’t touch the ground for a week.
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Gwenda Bond is the author of the young adult novels Girl on a Wire, Blackwood, and The Woken Gods. She has also written for Publishers Weekly and the Los Angeles Times, among other publications, and just might have been inspired to get a journalism degree by her childhood love of Lois Lane. She has an MFA in Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and lives in a hundred-year-old house in Lexington, Kentucky, with her husband, author Christopher Rowe, and their menagerie.
Visit her online at gwendabond.com or @gwenda on Twitter.
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ISBN: 978-1-63079-038-7 (jacketed hardcover)
ISBN: 978-1-63079-063-9 (ebook)
Summary: Lois Lane has settled in to her new school. She has friends, for maybe the first time in her life. She has a job that challenges her. And her friendship is growing with SmallvilleGuy, her online maybe-more-than-a-friend. But when her friend Maddy’s twin collapses in a part of town she never should’ve been in, Lois finds herself embroiled in a dangerous mystery that brings her closer to the dirty underbelly of Metropolis.
Jacket and book design by Bob Lentz