Seventeen-year-old Cassie is a natural at reading people. Piecing together the tiniest details, she can tell you who you are and what you want. But, it’s not a skill that she’s ever taken seriously. That is, until the FBI come knocking: they’ve begun a classified program that uses exceptional teenagers to crack infamous cold cases, and they need Cassie. What Cassie doesn’t realize is that there's more at risk than a few unsolved homicides—especially when she’s sent to live with a group of teens whose gifts are as unusual as her own. Soon, it becomes clear that no one in the Naturals program is what they seem. And when a new killer strikes, danger looms close. Caught in a lethal game of cat and mouse with a killer, the Naturals are going to have to use all of their gifts just to survive. Think The Mentalist meets Pretty Little Liars— Jennifer Lynn-Barnes’ The Naturals is a gripping psychological thriller with killer appeal, a to-die-for romance, and the bones of a gritty and compelling new series. Gr 9 Up-The FBI recruits Cassie Hobbes, 17, to be one of the Naturals, a group of teens with innate crime-solving abilities. Cassie learned how to read people from her mother, a performing psychic who disappeared five years ago and is presumed to be dead. With her father overseas in the military and her large extended Italian family in Colorado, Cassie sets out on her own to Washington. Seventeen-year-old Cassie Hobbes has always had a gift for getting into people’s minds. Maybe she inherited it from her psychic mother, and maybe she would ask her mother about it—if she hadn’t disappeared five years ago, leaving only a bloody crime scene behind. So when tapped by the FBI to join an elite, secret team that solves cold cases related to serial killers, Cassie doesn’t hesitate. Relocated to the D.C. suburbs, she meets a team of “Naturals,” teens with gifts ranging from reading emotions to detecting deception, and becomes the FBI’s newest profiler. In this high-adrenaline series opener, the latest spree of serial killings turns personal for Cassie when they grow increasingly more related to her mother’s presumed death. And when it’s obvious someone in the FBI may be involved, how can she trust or hide her emotions among the professionally trained Naturals? Grisly details and intermittent glimpses from the killer’s point of view sustain the high level of suspense. Even a psychic won’t anticipate all the twists and turns. Grades 8-11. --Angela Leeper " The Naturals is Criminal Minds for the YA world, and I loved every page." — New York Times best-selling author Ally Carter * "[A] tightly paced suspense novel that will keep readers up until the wee hours to finish." — VOYA (starred review) "This savvy thriller grabs readers right away." — Kirkus Reviews "It's a stay-up-late-to-finish kind of book, and it doesn't disappoint." — Publishers Weekly "In this high-adrenaline series opener...even a psychic won't anticipate all the twists and turns." — Booklist Jennifer Lynn Barnes has written more than a dozen acclaimed young adult novels, including The Inheritance Games, Little White Lies, Deadly Little Scandals, The Lovely and the Lost , and The Naturals series: The Naturals, Killer Instinct, All In, Bad Blood , and the e-novella, Twelve . Jen is also a Fulbright Scholar with advanced degrees in psychology, psychiatry, and cognitive science. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 2012 and is currently a professor of psychology and professional writing at the University of Oklahoma. You can find her online at www.jenniferlynnbarnes.com or follow her on Twitter @jenlynnbarnes. Used Book in Good Condition