Tilting its head, curious and fearless, it peered in at him as it had every morning for the last few days. He heard familiar birdsong and saw the little white-breasted blackbird touch down on a branch outside his window. Backlit by the early-morning sun, they were sharper and cleaner than high-def. The mountains were cloaked with snow from the early winter storm that had blown through the night before. Will opened the curtains and looked out at the Topa Topa Mountains rising beyond the backyard. Southern California’s most tangible asset: the best weather in the world. As he threw on his sweats, the room lit up with a bright, cheerful sunrise. He triple-racked his brain but couldn’t find a reason. So why do I feel like I’m about to face a firing squad? Not one major stress clouding the horizon. Tuesday, November 7, shaped up as a vanilla, cookie-cutter day. Will took a greedy breath and scratched his fingers vigorously through his unruly bed head. Two runs sandwiching seven hours of Novocain for the brain. Afternoon roadwork with the cross-country team.Morning roadwork with the cross-country team.He punched up the calendar and scanned his schedule. But wasn’t that why Dad had put it on top of his list, and on Will’s wall, in the first place? Following Rule #1, with a mind as hot-wired as Will’s, wasn’t nearly as easy. That’s how crucial his father considered this piece of advice. Rule #1 on Dad’s List of Rules to Live By. When he did open them, the same words greeted him on a banner across his bedroom wall: #1: THE IMPORTANCE OF AN ORDERLY MIND.
Will West began each day with that thought even before he opened his eyes. But I knew this much with iron certainty:
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Freezing air whispered through a crack in the frame, but I was drenched in sweat, my heart pounding. The boy was in unspeakable danger and he needed my help. Pursued by black grasping shadows that were little more than holes in the air, but there was no mistaking their intention. To be Continued In: The Paladin Prophecy Book 2: AllianceĪbout the Author Every crime is punished, Every virtue rewarded, Every wrong redressed, In silence and certainty. Random House Children’s Books supports the First Amendment and celebrates the right to read. Summary: A fifteen-year-old boy who has spent his entire life trying to avoid attention finds himself in the middle of a millennia-old struggle between titanic forces when he is simultaneously recruited by an exclusive prep school and followed by sinister agents. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Frost, Mark The Paladin prophecy / Mark Frost. Visit us on the Web! /teensĮducators and librarians, for a variety of teaching tools, visit us at Reprinted by permission of WB Music Corp. All rights administered by WB Music Corp. Bratton, copyright © 1947 (renewed) by WB Music Corp. for permission to include lyrics from THE TEDDY BEAR’S PICNIC written by Jimmy Kennedy, music by John W. Grateful acknowledgment is made to WB Music Corp. Random House and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. Published in the United States by Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Text copyright © 2012 by Mark Frost Jacket design by HiltsĪll rights reserved. In all other respects, any resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental. Where real-life historical or public figures appear, the situations, incidents, and dialogues concerning those persons are fictional and are not intended to depict actual events or to change the fictional nature of the work. All incidents and dialogue, and all characters with the exception of some well-known historical and public figures, are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real.
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