Mallory Sleat was seven when she entered her first beauty pageant. She was ten when her father was locked up. And she was thirteen when the Smiling Man hunted her across the Whitevale Island marshes.
After escaping the Smiling Man's grasp, Mallory wakes up in a strange land. A three day journey across the Atlantic Ocean has landed her in Sanctuary, a Kenyan wildlife refuge managed by an omniscient superhuman: Mother.
Even though Mallory and her friends are surrounded by powerful allies, rumors pervade Sanctuary about a potential traitor lurking among them-a traitor who had a hand in the attack on Whitevale Island. Now Mallory has no choice but to question everyone's motives and discover who the beguiling culprit might be.
With her inherited wit as the eldest daughter of an incarcerated embezzler, Mallory must make a stand and prove that she's not to be pushed around. She's a fighter, and the only way to prove it is to dirty up her knuckles...
But Mother has different plans for her.
About the Author: Remley Farr was born in Blackshear, GA, which is really swampy and full of mosquitoes, alligators, and people who love the second amendment. Fortunately, he survived long enough to graduate from Georgia Southern University in 2010, where he majored in Poverty, or as his diploma insists on calling it, English and Writing. His most recent writing successes include his play, "Mark and George Conquer the Universe," placing first at the Jackie White Memorial Children's Playwriting Competition hosted by the Columbia Entertainment Company in Columbia, MO. This was his first written work to win him some money, so his parents have started loving him again, and they now let him sit at the grown up table during family gatherings instead of keeping him at the foldout kiddy table. His young adult sci-fi series, PARAGON, is a testament to the merging of Farr's childhood and adulthood fictional favorites, which include such titanic runs as Goosebumps, Animorphs, Star Wars, Dragon Ball Z, LOST, Firefly, Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Pokemon, A Song of Ice and Fire, and maybe an episode of Sailor Moon or two when his guy friends weren't looking. He remembers library shelves strewn with anthologies that sometimes numbered over 50 installments, and maybe-just maybe-he can have a hand in bringing that kind of fiction back to the market. Farr's favorite authors include legends such as Stephen King, Jonathan Swift, R.L. Stine, K.A. Applegate, George R.R. Martin, and that guy who wrote the Declaration of Independence. Follow Farr and his Paragon series at insomniacsink.com for updates and other news!
