A Chance Encounter

Gideon Grant is a computer lawyer involved in the explosion of technology in the late 1990s. Dedicated to his clients, he has grown his firm at an astonishing rate but his life is no longer his own, with frequent twenty-four hour days. He decides to sell his firm, build a boat, and sail to the South Seas. Far off the coast of California, a wind shift causes him to encounter a sinking yacht, apparently abandoned. He boards it and pumps it out, and because of what he discovers, he is compelled to return it to its home port of San Francisco. There he becomes embroiled in the society he left behind and must defend himself against suspicion from authorities. He sets out to solve the mystery of who was aboard and what happened to them. In the process, he discovers what life and love are about.

Roger Meadows is the author of A CHANCE ENCOUNTER and a prior suspense novel, HANGMAN, A Deadly Game. After college and a tour as an Army aviator, he began a career in industry, completing graduate school along the way. He holds seventeen U.S. patents. He conducted business throughout the world, dealing with many cultures. He has written dozens of essays and short stories, and edited the works of other writers. He has participated in writers’ groups in Spartanburg, Greenville, and Hilton Head, South Carolina; and Knoxville, Tennessee. He and his wife, Wanda, are members of the local chapter of Sisters in Crime. Mr. Meadows enjoys reading, sailing, kayaking, travel, and wooden boat building. He and his wife live in the Upstate of South Carolina. They have three adult children and two grandchildren.