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The Becoming: Safe House
*Please note: This work is no longer available to purchase in this format. It is now the second half of the novel The Becoming, published by Permuted Press in November 2011. If you would like to read it, please purchase The Becoming from your retailer of choice.
In January 2009, the Michaluk Virus swept across the southeastern United States, infecting nearly everyone in its path and turning them into homicidal cannibals. One month later, as Cade, Brandt, and Ethan hole up in a safe house near Tupelo, Mississippi, the arrival of two brothers threatens to upset the layers of security and trust they’ve built around themselves. After the infected attack and they’re forced to flee, one of the members departs for Memphis and the others sweep south to Biloxi, where they discover a trapped young woman begging for help. When the rescue is botched and two members of the group go missing, the remaining three race to a new safe house, all the while wondering if their companions are still alive and who is left to help them survive.
This is part two of a five-part series. Part one, The Becoming: Outbreak, is available on this site in eBook format.
About the Author:
Jessica Meigs is a twenty-five year old writer living in semi-obscurity in Middle of Nowhere, Alabama. When she’s not writing, she works part time as an EMT and in the accounting office of a major retailer. She enjoys listening to music and spends way too much time building playlists for everything she writes. When she’s not rocking out at concerts, she can be found either on Twitter @a_silent_song or hanging out on the Crackberry.com forums, where she feeds her BlackBerry addiction.
The Becoming: Safe House is the second book in The Becoming series.
In January 2009, the Michaluk Virus swept across the southeastern United States, infecting nearly everyone in its path and turning them into homicidal cannibals. One month later, as Cade, Brandt, and Ethan hole up in a safe house near Tupelo, Mississippi, the arrival of two brothers threatens to upset the layers of security and trust they’ve built around themselves. After the infected attack and they’re forced to flee, one of the members departs for Memphis and the others sweep south to Biloxi, where they discover a trapped young woman begging for help. When the rescue is botched and two members of the group go missing, the remaining three race to a new safe house, all the while wondering if their companions are still alive and who is left to help them survive.
This is part two of a five-part series. Part one, The Becoming: Outbreak, is available on this site in eBook format.
About the Author:
Jessica Meigs is a twenty-five year old writer living in semi-obscurity in Middle of Nowhere, Alabama. When she’s not writing, she works part time as an EMT and in the accounting office of a major retailer. She enjoys listening to music and spends way too much time building playlists for everything she writes. When she’s not rocking out at concerts, she can be found either on Twitter @a_silent_song or hanging out on the Crackberry.com forums, where she feeds her BlackBerry addiction.
The Becoming: Safe House is the second book in The Becoming series.
163 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 23, 2011
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About the author
Jessica Meigs
30 books181 followersJessica Meigs is the author of The Becoming, a post-apocalyptic thriller series that follows a group of people trying to survive a massive viral outbreak in the southeastern United States. After gaining notoriety for having written the first two books in the series on a variety of BlackBerry smartphones, she self-published two novellas that now make up part of the first book in the series. In April 2011, she accepted a deal with Permuted Press to publish The Becoming as a series of novels. The first of the series, entitled The Becoming, was released in November 2011, and was named one of Barnes & Noble’s Best Zombie Fiction Releases of the Decade by reviewer Paul Goat Allen.
In 2019, Jessica began self-publishing again, this time exploring a new universe with The Unnaturals Series, in which a group of government-employed agents discover that the wheels of the Biblical apocalypse are in motion…and they’re the only ones who can stop it.
In late 2020, after obtaining the rights for the series back from the publisher, Jessica began reissuing The Becoming Series in revised and expanded editions. The new editions of the series are available now on all major ebook retailers.
Jessica lives in semi-obscurity in Demopolis, Alabama. When she’s not writing, she works full time as an editor, copyeditor, and proofreader. She can be found on a variety of social media platforms and on her website at www.jessicameigs.com.
If you are an author interested in exploring Jessica’s editorial services, you can check out her editing website at www.editsbyjessica.com.
For rights inquiries, please contact Jessica via the contact form on her website.
In 2019, Jessica began self-publishing again, this time exploring a new universe with The Unnaturals Series, in which a group of government-employed agents discover that the wheels of the Biblical apocalypse are in motion…and they’re the only ones who can stop it.
In late 2020, after obtaining the rights for the series back from the publisher, Jessica began reissuing The Becoming Series in revised and expanded editions. The new editions of the series are available now on all major ebook retailers.
Jessica lives in semi-obscurity in Demopolis, Alabama. When she’s not writing, she works full time as an editor, copyeditor, and proofreader. She can be found on a variety of social media platforms and on her website at www.jessicameigs.com.
If you are an author interested in exploring Jessica’s editorial services, you can check out her editing website at www.editsbyjessica.com.
For rights inquiries, please contact Jessica via the contact form on her website.
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May 11, 2011
I wish the book was longer, it seems when I really start to get into it the book ends. Standard zombie apocalypse fare.
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