Watched Series by Cindy Hogan

Christy is a 15 year old with incredible intellect and a photographic memory.  She wins a contest to go to New York with a youth political group in hopes of changing her life since she is bullied at her school.  She had no clue that this trip will definately change her life as she and her group witness a murder from a terrorist group.  She and her friends are followed and one girl is even kidnapped.  They get in contact with the FBI and with their help the first book "Watched" ends with all of the kids returning home believing they are safe.

In the second book "Protected" Christy and a friend are kidnapped and are luckily rescued by the FBI and put into witness protection.  Christy has a chance to become a popular cheerleader as she begins her new life as Melissa.  She is trained and continues training in self-defense in order to protect herself if any of the terrorist groups find her.  She has become the main target of power and whichever group kills her becomes the leading terrorist group.  When Melissa is found she must once again change her idendity and become a gothic, biker girl.

The third book takes Christy or Ari at this time and all of her political field trip group to Europe to a spy school as the the terrorists are finally captured.  Christy and many of her friends find themselves being trained for various spy positions.  Ari finds that she has the ability to become a great spy and even ends up on an important FBI mission to prove her abilities.  She has a choice to continue with spy training or to finally go back home.  You will have to read to see what her future is.

It may sound like a dumb series to read, but I really enjoyed reading them.  The first book is free on Kindle right now and the second two are only $3.99.  The only thing that bugged me with the series is that it is painfully obvious the author has LDS ties and she doesn't outright say that Christy is LDS but she isn't Catholic or Protestant.  She mentions Christy's strict parents with no dating until 16, no drinking, smoking, tatoos, piercings, and she mentions multiple times things her youth leaders taught her.  Yes, it is good that Christy must try to keep her values while also going through the witness protection and missions, but it detracted from the story by inserting these paragraphs of inner turmoil and religious conflicts.  You don't need to put such a strong religious perspective in it to make it a good book.  Otherwise, it was fun and I enjoyed reading something other than classic literature or fantasy.