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A Goodreads user asked Stuart Gibbs:

Why did you start the Ben/Erica relationship in Spy School at Sea? Why not earlier on in the series?

Stuart Gibbs Because it didn't feel right to me to start it earlier. In the previous books, Ben is 12 or 13. In SSAS he is nearly 14.

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