A Thriller · Coming March 15, 2028
Strange Ground
Calvin and Ariunaa Brooks wanted a quiet life in Mongolia. Instead, they landed in Meridian, a city built to be a model for the world. Then someone tried to kill its founder.
The Premise
A city built to be perfect. A founder someone wants dead.
Calvin and Ariunaa Brooks had a plan: a quiet life in her native Mongolia.
Government policy had other ideas. The move it forced on them ended in the United States, in the City of Meridian.
Meridian was designed to be a utopia. City living and green space in balance. An economy built to be fair. A model the rest of the world was meant to follow.
Then someone tries to kill Karen Hill, the woman who founded it.
Now Calvin and Ariunaa stand between Karen and whoever wants her gone, in a game of cat and mouse where one wrong move ends everything.
In Meridian, everyone is watching. Not everyone is on her side.
Coming March 15, 2028
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While You Wait
Political Crime Thriller · Out Now
An accountant spots a transaction that was never meant to exist. By morning, he is America’s most wanted terrorist.
Set in the same world as Strange Ground. Read them in any order.
David Rhue has spent 25 years helping businesses deploy and run their financial systems. A solution architect by trade and a storyteller by conviction, he writes thrillers about what institutions do to the people inside them. The First Call is his debut novel. He lives in Florida with his family.
Same World. Different Stories.
Each novel stands on its own. Together, they add up to something larger.
The Particulars
| Format | Ebook, Paperback |
| Publication Date | March 15, 2028 |
| Price | $9.99 ebook, $19.99 paperback |
| Categories | Thriller |
| Series | Standalone |
| Content | Clean language. No explicit sexual content. Contains violence. Themes of greed, power, and displacement. |
Paradise was the plan. Survival is the job.
Strange Ground. Coming March 15, 2028.