Yesterday's Gone: Season One / David W. Wright and Sean Platt / 448 pages

During the summer of 2011, David Wright and Sean Platt started writing Yesterday's Gone as an e-book, by-passing the perils of publishing and the necessity of a trip to the bookstore.  Readers could instantly download the story and its three forthcoming sequels to their e-reader.  Written to mimic highly successful TV series - delivering weekly character-driven serials that bring you to the edge of your seat and leave you hanging, the authors wrote "episodes and incorporated them into season compilations."  Similar to the Gone series by Michael Grant, the story begins at 2:15 on October 15, 2011, when much of America's population simply disappears.  An alien presence is watching, hunting, devouring.  We trace a variety of survivors as they attempt to make sense of this post-apocalyptic nightmare.  With hair-raising terror, spine-tingling suspense, Stephen King-like atmosphere, and Dean Koontz-like philosophical conjecture, Yesterday's Gone is a captivating read.  The ending, however, is non-existent.  One must continue reading Seasons 2-4 for resolutions.  Some of the characters are from Warson Woods, right here in our St. Louis area, and some are from Pensacola, Florida, where I was on vacation reading this.  It almost felt as if the authors were writing this just for me...spooky!