The Paladin Prophecy

This is a work of fiction. 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. 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. In all other respects, any resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.

Text copyright © 2012 by Mark Frost

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Frost, Mark

The Paladin prophecy / Mark Frost. — 1st ed.

p. cm.

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.

eISBN: 978-0-375-98001-5

[1. Preparatory schools—Fiction. 2. High schools—Fiction.

3. Schools—Fiction. 4. Good and evil—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.F92164Pal 2012 [Fic]—dc23 2011031171

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