Sentence Sneak Peek - Alien in the House

Alien in the House by Gini Koch

The first sentence from each chapter of Alien in the House, it's a mini summary of what you can expect to read.

* Spoilers are highlighted like so :)

* Received from the publisher for review

“AS ANY PERSON WHO’S ever had to hide a huge secret about themselves knows,

being outed before you’re ready is one of the things you fear the most.”

“THIS IS THE THIRD representative to become inca-pacitated in as many weeks,” the TV announcer’s voice shared.”

“AMES, GO YOU!”

“ROGER THAT, Walt.”

“CHUCKIE NODDED.”

“WHY THE HECK NOT?”

“THE MAN IN THE CIRCLE who might be Clarence re-turned from the dead hadn’t caught me looking, at least I figured he hadn’t because he hadn’t disappeared.”

“YES, ‘UNCLE’ PETER?”

“DECIDED CLARENCE WAS probably long gone and I’d better do what my new BFFs, the Assassination Squad, said.”

“I GAPED AT RAYMOND.”

“HAD TO SAY this for Len and Kyle—they knew, abso-lutely, when it was time to make a hasty retreat.”

“WE WERE MOSTLY NAKED, I was in Jeff’s arms with my legs wrapped around his waist, and he was doing wonderful things to my breasts, when the com activated.”

“I DIDN’T WANT HALF of these people in my home, but Cliff had overruled any and all objections with a very simple point—these people were important enough that slighting them would cause us far more problems than if we just played along and pretended to like them.”

“THE LAST TIME Vance had shared a dramatic “we’re all gonna die” message with me had been during Operation Assassination.”

“I PREPPED MYSELF for words of doom and destruction.”

“RAJ, what the hell is going on?”

“LET THAT SIT on the air for a bit.”

“ON THAT NOTE of potentially prescient doom, Raj, the boys, and I left.”

“I KISSED CAMILLA’S cheek on autopilot.”

“THERE WERE A LOT of responses I wanted to give to this statement.”

“REYES WASN’T LOOKING at me any more, and his hand felt limp in mine when he’d been holding tightly only a moment before.”

“WE HEADED UPSTAIRS.”

“I WOULD LIKE TO offer Romania’s good offices to help resolve and repair this matter,” Andrei, Olga’s husband, said before anyone else could speak.”

“MY ANNOUNCEMENT engendered lots of gasps of shock from everyone other than Eugene, Mom, and Chuckie.”

“WE TOLD MOM and Chuckie we were going to back out and let them and the Head of Field handle things while we returned Prince to his rightful owner.”

“I REALLY WANTED TO PANIC.”

“HANG ON A MOMENT.”

“I’M NOT SAYING you can’t trust me, Kitty,” Raj said patiently.”

“DO WE WAIT HERE for Christopher or do we head up and see about getting something done?”

“HAVING HELPED TO SAVE the world more than a cou-ple times myself, this didn’t exactly impress me over-much.”

“AS BLOOD SPATTERED, Prince slammed into me and George the Peregrine.”

“OF COURSE, it wasn’t that easy.”

“HACKER INTERNATIONAL CONSISTED  of the five best hackers worldwide.”

“THERE WAS THE USUAL BEDLAM.”

“IT SO FIGURES.”

“CAMILLA MOVED CALMLY through the room while I contemplated how similarly she and Chuckie appeared to think.”

“LET THAT STATEMENT sit on the air for a few moments.”

“YOU’RE ALL HIGH.”

“PEOPLE SAY THAT TO US A LOT.”

“JEFF STEPPED OUT, carrying coats.”

“JEFF SHOVED ME TO WHITE, motioned for all of us to get back, then ran over using hyperspeed.”

“BYE,” I said to no one.”

“I’D BEEN TIRED and upset about Reader being upset with me.”

“READER WAS SOMEWHAT understanding about why we’d withheld information.”

“WE STARTED GETTING UNDRESSED, rather slowly.”

“FOR AS TIRED AS I WAS, both physically and emotion-ally, it wasn’t a shocker that I fell right to sleep once we were done having lots more incredibly fantastic sex.”

“DAD, HOLD THAT THOUGHT.”

“I PLAYED THIS GAME with Omega Red last night.”

“CHRISTOPHER, AMY, and White headed out right after eating so they could get going.”

“AS I’D SAID, we went to the infirmary first.”

“LEN AND READER WERE already inside one of our standard-issue gray limos.”

“I DIDN’T THINK ABOUT IT.”

“AS SOON AS WE were out of sight, Jeff took us to the fast hyperspeed.”

“WE STOPPED RUNNING.”

“OLIVER CHOSE TO STAY at Rayburn to get all the de-tails for his now front-page story.”

“DOWN!”

“IT TOOK LESS TIME to catch Chuckie up than anyone else so far, in part because he didn’t interrupt me with questions, and in other part because I was so emotionally freaked out I was talking at close to hyperspeed.”

“VANCE AND I HEADED upstairs.”

“THAT SAT ON THE AIR FOR A BIT.”

“WE HEADED BACK DOWNSTAIRS.”

“I THINK HE’S RIGHT,” Tim said.”

“WE DECIDED TO TAKE the time Brewer had bought us to do what Christopher wanted.”

“WE GOT INTO THE ELEVATOR NOW.”

“GOOD QUESTION.”

“ALL THAT’S GREAT,” Jeff said.”

“THE OTHERS HEADED DOWNSTAIRS.”

“SINCE DAY ONE with Centaurion Division, gates had been the bane of my existence.”

“OUR MUCH SMALLER group of six entered the big au-ditorium that was the Floor of the House of Represen-tatives.”

“NOTHING MUCH OF importance happened once the ceremony was over.”

“OF COURSE, this didn’t mean I wasn’t surprised.”

“THREE OF THE FOUR men in the room looked at me with various degrees of horror in their expressions.”

“WE SENT SOME TEXTS and made some calls, so every-one who needed to know was aware of where we were and who we were waiting for.”

“CHRISTMAS WAS IN TWO DAYS, meaning Jamie’s birthday was in two days.”

“DINNER OVER, everyone went to bed, either in their own rooms or assigned guest rooms, or, in Tito’s case, back to the infirmary.”

“JEFF SIGHED as he sat down next to me.”

“HOW DO THESE lines correlate to the murder or sus-pected murder of over twenty people?”

“HOW’D YOU KNOW”

“THE FIVE OF US WENT BACK TO BED.”

“THE BREWERS TRULY didn’t live that far from us.”

“TIME MOVED SLOWLY.”

“IT SO FIGURES.”

“RAJ WAS BETTER at handling the police because he played the Diplomatic Immunity card within a minute of speaking to the officers.”

“NO,” Jeff said flatly.”

“TITO HAD NO ISSUE giving Rahmi and Rhee their spe-cial orders.”

“WE DON’T WANT TO kill the assassin?”

“WELL, my bitch of a stepmother’s dead,” Amy said.”

“BECAUSE SHE SCREWED UP,” Michael suggested.”

“GOWER GOT THE LOOK on his face that I was familiar with, the one where he was listening to someone is his head.”

“THE ROOM WAS SILENT, to the point where someone honestly could have heard a pin drop.”

“MY FIGHT WITH NAOMI had taken up a nice chunk of time.”

“SENATOR, I need to ask you three questions.”

“FORTUNATELY, A-Cs had really great reflexes.”

“THINGS HAPPENED VERY QUICKLY.”

“WE ZIPPED HOME to find Jeff there, pacing in the foyer.”

“SPUN AROUND to see Buchanan there.”

“BUCHANNAN MADE HIS CALLS.”

“THE REST OF THE PARTY WAS GREAT.”

“ALL THE GUESTS who weren’t our friends and family were gone.”

“THE RECEPTION WENT more slowly than the wedding had, but it was fun and comfortable, and Chuckie looked incredibly happy and more relaxed than I’d seen him in at least a year.”