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The Yard: A Prison That Should Not Exist
Paperback
Series: The Meridian Cycle, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 14 2026
Pages: 484
Weight: 1.41
Height: 1.08 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
THE YARD
Three years.
One prison.
One lie big enough to erase a man.
Celebrity chef André Carter thought prison would be punishment.
He was wrong.
Convicted for a hit-and-run he doesn't remember committing, André is sentenced to Smith State Prison in Georgia. But on Day 3, his grandmother's grits taste like a photograph of grits. By Day 27, he knows he isn't in Georgia at all.
The prison routines feel rehearsed.
The inmates feel casted.
The conversations sound written before they happen.
Then André discovers the truth:
Smith State Prison is a replica, a billion-dollar copy built on a remote island in the Banda Sea by Meridian Holdings, a private corporation streaming inmate lives to 2.1 million paying subscribers. His mother's voice on the Sunday phone call is synthetic. The violence is scheduled. The friendships are engineered. Every second of his incarceration is content.
But Meridian makes one fatal mistake:
They forget André Carter is a chef.
And a chef understands timing.
Quietly, patiently, André begins hiding an escape plan inside recipes only he and a young inmate named Corey can read - turning food into code while the entire world watches without realizing what they're seeing.
Because the Yard was never built to hold prisoners.
It was built to study them.
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