Meg: Origins, a prequel to the Meg series of military-encounters-deep-sea-horror fantasy thrillers by Steve Alten, is free courtesy of Gere Donovan Press.
Currently just free @
Amazon (available to Canadians), 99 cents @ B&N and iTunes.
ETA: In the intervening years, this has also become free in the following venues:
Now also free @
Kobo &
iTunes (both available to Canadians), as well as
Amazon UK (all DRM-free).
What looks like the original start of the series, Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror is regularly priced at $4.99 in all venues and DRM-free @ Amazon (linked for your sample-getting convenience).
Another novel in the series, Meg: Hell's Aquarium is a mere $2.86 for Canadians and also DRM-free, by a different publisher @ Amazon (may also be available elsewhere, this is the limit of my associated bargains checking). Okay, it's #4 in the series, and B&N has it for $2.99, as well as some sort of standalone apocalyptic prophesied-since-medieval-times-end-of-the-world-thriller, Grim Reaper for the same price; other stores, you'll have to lookup yourself.
Description
Commander Jonas Taylor is tasked with piloting the US Navy's most advanced submersible, the DSV Sea Cliff, to the bottom of Challenger Deep 36,000 feet below the surface into what is very much an undiscovered country. What he finds there a remnant population of luminous, prehistoric Megalodons will change the course of the rest of his life.
In this prequel to his New York Times Bestseller, Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror, Alten sets the stage for the popular suspense series to follow. Fans of Meg will find it a must for offering insight into key characters' backstories, but the novella-length work also stands alone as a bite-sized tale of deep-sea suspense.