The Mistakes and Memories of Edward Townsend

Agent Edward Townsend of MI6 is many things: young, ambitious, calculating, and yes, strikingly handsome. Sure, he's got a reputation of being condescending, but that's not taking him off the fast track to become a top clearance operative before he's thirty and be privy to Britain's most precious government secrets. Edward has a long list of achievements under his name, including thwarting missile-smuggling ex-KGB generals and taking three bullets to save the British Queen, so he (reasonably) thinks he's seen it all.

Until a woman named Catherine Goode walks into his life.

His brief- yet life-changing- affair with her sends him on a collision course with an international terrorist organization that has existed since the American Civil War, a group of talented young girls attending the world's premier boarding school for spies, and maybe even the love of his life.

This novella tells readers the backstory behind the most mysterious of characters from Ally Carter's Gallagher Girls series.

(Note: I am not Ally Carter. These characters and the general story line belong to her. Plus, this was written before her Plaid Collection epilogues came out, so the novella may not match up perfectly.)