The Meridian Grid Series

Dead Signal—The Meridian Grid Series Book 1 by Corvin Slate

Meridian City runs on systems.

Traffic. Power. Water. Surveillance.

Every streetlight and sensor feeds the grid.

Most people think the infrastructure just keeps the city running.

They’re wrong.

When a convoy of chemical shipments appears in the middle of the night, the city itself intervenes, traffic lights lock down, rail barriers drop, and a masked figure vanishes before anyone can explain what happened. Detective Marcus Vale begins investigating the impossible lockdowns.

Journalist Sarah Chen uncovers a network of corporate construction projects hiding something far more dangerous beneath the city.

And Alex Sterling, the architect who helped design Meridian’s smart infrastructure—knows the system is doing something it was never meant to do.

It’s predicting crimes.

Stopping them.

And someone else has started fighting back.

As corporate forces begin probing the city’s infrastructure for weaknesses, Meridian becomes the battlefield for a silent war fought through code, sensors, and systems that control millions of lives.

Because whoever controls the grid… controls the city.