Roads to Rome. Lockhart, #0

Before you met them, they were awesome.Sandra skips two years in school, and the bullies make her pay for it in middle school. That just makes her tougher in high school and college. Growing up surrounded by art and music, she finds herself the main (and only) assistant of the FBI Liaison Officer in Rome, Italy, during the years of terrorism, coups, and dramatic Mafia trials. A crash course in life, and an entrée into the world of international intrigue.
Joe's mother smashes glass ceilings; his war hero father saves lives. But Joe himself only remembers nightmares and grief after a mysterious disease kills his father. That, and growing up as an expatriate American in the Eternal City. Fifteen short stories, arranged chronologically, provide a delightful prequel to the novels of the Lockhart trilogy. Sandra and Joe find new meaning in the idea of home as they move to Washington DC, London, Ohio, Richmond, Virginia, and Rome, Italy.