On a hot summer’s day in Boston, US Marine turned Homicide Detective Reid Halsey finds himself in the middle of a deadly shootout with a murder suspect.

When Lucas Soul, a seemingly innocent victim, rises from the dead moments after a fatal gunshot wound to the head, Reid comes to the shocking realization that the world he believes in may very well be a carefully fabricated lie masking an unearthly reality.

The Meeting tells the origin of the incredible friendship between Reid Hasley and Lucas Soul, the protagonists of Soul Meaning (Book 1 in the award-winning Seventeen series).