She, Valentin, and her father working with a PsyOps team, looking for Rostov's scrubbers (the super-psychics mentioned in the synopsis). In this sequel novel, Yulia is now residing in Washington, D.C. So I was really wary of reading this one, because I had very little context! It wasn't so bad though, reading the sequel pretty much from scratch. I liked Sekret, but I admit, I forgot a lot of what happened in Sekret. This series is pretty interesting - different from what I'm used to reading, but interesting nonetheless. Ultimately, Yulia must keep control of her own mind to save the people she loves and avoid an international Skandal.

And when super-psychics start turning up in the US capitol, it seems that even Rostov is still a threat.

Her mother is being targeted by the CIA and the US government is suspicious of Yulia's allegiance. Her father is reckless and aloof, and Valentin is distant and haunted by his past. Life in Washington, D.C., is not the safe haven Yulia hoped for when she risked everything to flee communist Russia. The dramatic sequel to Sekret, this psychic Cold War espionage thriller follows Yulia to Washington, DC, where she fights to discover the truth about her family without losing control of her mind. Arms races, all of them, going nowhere.' Ages 12 up.*** Review posted on The Eater of Books! blog*** As one character puts it: 'Space, weapons, psychics. Debut novelist Smith's background in foreign affairs and Russian culture shines through in the historical context of her story and the political savvy of her characters and plot. Though Yulia yearns for escape and reunite with her family, she also learns valuable skills from the KGB's psychic guardians, including how to shield her mind from other psychics through music. She is quickly swept into a world of Soviet spies, imprisoned in a house with other similarly gifted young men and women, all conscripted to unearth top-secret information from the Americans. Yulia Andreevna Chernina, 17, has the unfortunate luck of getting scooped up by the psychic branch of the KGB for her ability to 'read' the past when she touches an object.

In this smart and fresh supernatural take on the spy novel, it's 1963, and the Soviet Union and United States are deep into the Cold War, with spycraft a necessary trade on both sides.

Sekret by Lindsay Smith