Toni

“You’re growing up so fast, Jo. In just a few days, you’ll walk away with a PhD. I can’t hold on to you forever.” His eyes welled up with tears.”
― Nova McBee, Calculated: A YA Action Adventure Series

“PSS was a private think tank out-sourcing company, which drew on solutions from prodigies like me to solve all kinds of economic, agricultural, and political world problems. They operated secretly, to avoid drawing attention to the prodigies they employed. When they sought me out during my first year at Stanley, my family and I had to sign a confidentiality agreement just to learn more about them. Despite my father’s outspoken dislike, I’d always been interested in the work PSS did.”
― Nova McBee, Calculated: A YA Action Adventure Series

“In less than a year, Dad’s company made more money than he’d or I’d ever imagined. So we made even more. It was thrilling for a while. But money wasn’t as joyful as everyone thought; it couldn’t bring back someone you loved. Eventually my gift frightened him. He worried I’d be taken advantage of.”
― Nova McBee, Calculated: A YA Action Adventure Series

“A month before graduation the phone had started ringing and it hadn’t stopped—job offers, everything from professorships to government to private enterprise. My dad told everyone the same thing. She’s fifteen. Call back in a few years. But he was coming around.”
― Nova McBee, Calculated: A YA Action Adventure Series