Edgar Dewitt is the new kid in town. Moving from Alabama to Mount Lanier, Washington has been quite the change, and Edgar quickly realizes making new friends won't be as easy as he thought. On his first day in town, he meets one of Mount Lanier’s best: the incorrigible Chris Weedy, who’s as bright as a sack of socks and as mean as you can get. 

One day while exploring the woods behind his new house, Edgar discovers something mysterious: an old abandoned cabin. But the real magic happens when he finds something even more magnificent inside the cabin itself: a dark and ominous hole. After studying the hole for a few days, Edgar musters his courage and jumps in feet first. It takes him straight through the center of the earth to a tiny island in the middle of the Indian ocean, and Edgar knows he’s stumbled upon something ancient. Something secret--a seemingly impossible way to journey to the other side of the world. 

For the next several weeks, the island becomes a sanctuary where Edgar can escape Chris Weedy’s cruel taunting and his parents’ constant questions. But a sudden, nearby wildfire threatens to engulf the town in flames and take Edgar’s volunteer firefighter father along with it. Edgar must act fast and decide between saving his new town or keeping his newly found safe haven.

Ferrill Gibbs is a writer and singer/songwriter from the Alabama Gulf Coast, whose songs have been featured in American Songwriter Magazine and CMJ, material that iTunes has called, ". . . fully arranged pop songs that literate and mature music fans could enjoy."

Born and raised in Mobile, Alabama, Ferrill attended Auburn University for three years before moving to Jackson Hole, Wyoming where he lived for a year and a half. After moving back to Alabama, he returned to AU and received his Bachelor's degree in English, albeit rather slowly. Having worked in several industries including food service and construction, Ferrill now manages a chain of family-owned convenience stores with his wife, "Fish," in his hometown of Mobile, Alabama.

He has written and recorded four albums of indie rock music that went on to generate radio play at colleges and independent stations around the country. Appearing on his albums are many prominent Southern musicians, who, to this day, maintain great success in all the realms of the music they play: Jay Gonzales of the Drive By Truckers; JoJo Glidewell of of Montreal; Robby Handley of Lera Lynn; Marlon Patton of Larkin Poe; Andy Carlson (who’s appeared on “New Adventures in Hi Fi” for REM) – among others.