"Meridian" eBook (EPUB & PDF formats)

The EPUB book format (.epub) provides the smoothest and most comfortable reading experience, and it is compatible with most commercial readers such as Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, and Google Play Books. There are also a number of free e-reader apps that work very well, FBReader for iOS and Android being our free reader of choice.

The PDF format (.pdf) is the most ubiquitous reading experience, and all it requires is the free Adobe Acrobat Reader (which you probably already have). Like an EPUB file, it can also be imported into most commercial readers such as Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, and Google Play Books. Major drawbacks in reading PDF files in Acrobat or other e-readers are the inability to adjust font type, size, line-height, etc., and an overall "clunky" user experience.

Identical EPUB and PDF versions of your book will be included in your zipped download, just unzip the folder to a known location on your device. A quick online search should provide the info you need to import our EPUB products into your reader of choice, and we include instructions with every download.

Excerpt

Prelude

After a massive solar flare plunges America into darkness, seven complete strangers from different parts of the country experience a series of inexplicable events that defy logic and require their collective wit to navigate. Though a bond is forged between six of them, there is something off about the seventh member of this impromptu group. Understanding who he is will soon become a matter of life and death as the group becomes trapped along a narrow corridor of Interstate 70 in America’s Heartland.

Chapter One: “Skyrockets in Flight”

When you’re neophobic, a break-up can be terrifying even when you know it’s for the best. Whether its cause is eagerness or dread, the resulting anxiety can make it hard to sleep, and Cassie had been averaging less than four hours for weeks. Still living in her hometown of Miami, Oklahoma, though he was good to her, Cassie never loved the man she had been with for almost a decade, going back to their junior year in high school. After years of stalling, she finally told Shane she needed space.

Miami was a tiny town with a population under 15,000, so for Cassie, “space” was a relative term. First, it meant getting her own place. However, after a month, it seemed Cassie and Shane were destined to run into one another daily, so Cassie began considering a change of venue. Doing so would require her to find a job in another town, preferably far enough away to greatly reduce the possibility of an unplanned encounter with her ex. It wasn’t so much that she wanted to avoid him, she just didn’t want to let her guard down in a moment of weakness and suddenly find herself back in the relationship again. Been there. Done that.

Miami is situated in the northeast corner of Oklahoma, near the convergence of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas and Missouri. With experience under her belt running small, locally owned retail stores and shops, Cassie figured she could find work in most any larger town and considered Tulsa a logical place to check out since she had a cousin living there. Despite that fact, the thought of moving anywhere made her heart race.

During another sleepless night, rather than take a leap of faith by moving to Tulsa without a job, Cassie decided to take some baby steps first. She really needed a vacation. After awaking from what was more just a catnap than actual sleep, Cassie planned to pack for a month long midsummer driving adventure across the Midwest, checking out any points of interest along the way. Accordingly, she decided against following a schedule other than simply driving until she felt compelled to stop.

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