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The Town Between: Some towns never die-they just forget they're gone. A story of love, loss, and the light that refused to fade.
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 27 2025
Pages: 324
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When a forgotten nuclear warhead detonates beneath the decommissioned Nike Missile Base outside Porter, Indiana, the entire town is vaporized in an instant. But in the echo of that light, Porter somehow remains, recreated in perfect, ghostly detail. Its people go on living, unaware that they have died.
Mark and Dawn Schultz, a married couple of thirty years, continue their routines as though nothing has changed: he plows the same streets for Fortitude Snowplowing; she drives her morning bus route for Duneland Schools. But the signs of fracture soon appear, neighbors vanishing, stores flickering between ruin and reality, the same date frozen on every calendar.
As the truth unfolds, Mark and Dawn realize Porter exists in the space between the living and the dead-an in-between where memory holds what heaven hasn't claimed. Together they must face the impossible: to accept their own deaths, find peace for their town, and walk the bridge of light that leads them home.
A haunting and deeply human story about love's endurance beyond the grave, The Town Between is M.A. Stellen's most evocative work yet, a quiet apocalypse lit by memory, devotion, and the light that remembers.
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