Development continues on Pardon Island, a novel centered around a televised social experiment set inside Mercy Creek.
Each season brings 250 new residents to the private island. Two hundred forty-five are ordinary people selected for the show. Five are secretly death row inmates whose identities are known to the television audience but not to anyone living in Mercy Creek.
The town itself has been designed to resemble an idealized 1950s American community, complete with a diner, grocery store, theatre, bowling alley, repair shop, community center, and the private Pardon Island Diary Room.