FICTION / ADDICTION / MEMORY
A man invents a better life.
The truth follows him there.
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NOW SHOWINGMEEKS✦THE RANLEIGH TAPESBY GABRIEL TAIT
I.
THE RANLEIGH MEEKS NOVELS
One life.
Two versions.
Neither lets go.
These books live where memory slips, identity fractures, and escape begins to look dangerously like home.
BOOK ONE / 2023
A NOVEL
OF TWO
LIVES
THE FIRST NOVEL
MEEKS
His dream life is killing him.
Leigh Meeks has a dead-end job, mounting bills, and a mind that won’t let him rest. But when he sleeps, he becomes Ranleigh, a successful novelist with money, confidence, and a life worth wanting.
He turns to drugs and alcohol to stay there longer. Soon, the distinction between the two worlds begins to disappear.
GET THE BOOK ↗“A superb psychological thriller that kept me guessing to the very end.”
Gaius Konstantine, Readers’ Favorite
THE ESCAPEbecomesTHE RECKONING
THE COMPANION TO MEEKS
THE
RANLEIGH
TAPES
The tape doesn’t look away.
Six months sober, Ranleigh sits across from his sponsor with a stack of handwritten pages and a tape recorder. There is nowhere left to hide.
As the reels turn, he tells the story behind the addiction: the childhood, the damage, the lies, and the choices that brought him here.
GET THE BOOK ↗“The use of authentic-sounding tape sessions makes the story even more compelling.”
Alija Turkovic, Readers’ Favorite
BOOK TWO / 2025
THE AUTHOR
THE LIVES
ARE FICTIONAL.
The understanding isn’t.
Gabriel Tait is a Toronto-based author whose fiction explores addiction, memory, fractured identity, and the difficult business of facing yourself.
Sober since October 27, 2001, he brings lived experience to his portrayal of addiction and recovery. He writes about people who invent other lives, conceal old wounds, and struggle to accept the possibility of help.
Meeks is his first novel. The Ranleigh Tapes returns to Ranleigh Echo Meeks through the raw intimacy of a recorded confession.
BASED IN
TORONTOSOBER SINCE
2001NOVELS
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