Contemporary Fiction · Debut Novel
The Levels
Between Us
"Every road leads somewhere. Not every road leads home."
"Every road leads somewhere. Not every road leads home."
Some distances are measured in miles. Others are measured in choices — in the slow accumulation of small silences, professional pressures, and the private geography of a life that grew too far from its center of gravity.
The Levels Between Us is a story told through landscape and momentum. Its characters move through cities, coastlines, and the open roads between them, carrying the weight of who they wanted to be against who they've become. The book is interested in ambition the way satellite imagery is interested in terrain — not judging it, but rendering it precisely, in all its texture and shadow.
A debut that moves with the confidence of a writer who has spent decades learning to see — and who knows that the most important distances are never the ones you can measure.
The novel unfolds in layers — personal and professional, remembered and present — with a prose style that rewards patience and punishes rushing. Beau Legeer brings to fiction the same analytical precision he applied to geospatial data: every scene earns its place, every image carries weight, and the landscape is never mere backdrop.
For readers of character-driven contemporary fiction. For anyone who has wondered how they ended up exactly where they are, and what it would cost to find their way back to something true.
Cities, coastlines, and open roads rendered with the precision of someone trained to read terrain from above.
The cost of driving toward something — and what gets left behind at every level of the climb.
The invisible distances between people who share a life — and what it takes to cross them.
Characters who know the world better than they know themselves, and the slow reckoning that follows.
A narrative that moves between layers of time, asking what we carry and what we've let decay.
A distinctly contemporary American story — of work, movement, and the search for stillness.
The Levels Between Us spans the American landscape — from the Appalachian hills of West Virginia to the boardrooms of Chicago and the peaks of the Colorado Rockies. This interactive map plots every identifiable place explored in the novel, tracing the cross-country journey of Elias Thorne and Sarah Vance from their chance meeting in a Walmart parking lot in Huntington all the way to the Denver skyline.
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Available now on Amazon in print and Kindle editions. Start reading today — or give it to someone who needs a story that knows how far a life can drift from itself.
Beau Legeer spent more than thirty years in geospatial technology — from software engineering at Research Systems Inc. (the company that created IDL) to Director of Imagery & Remote Sensing at Esri. The Levels Between Us is his debut novel. He lives in Louisville, Colorado.
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