As the two paths push Dee deeper into her survival journey, one path threatens suffocation, the other exhaustion. Which offers a chance of salvation? In Reality One, Dee goes to California. Her new beginning pushes aside the past and the trauma she escaped. Life here is filled with challenges, though: choices between right and wrong, dealing with thorny personalities, and trying to hold on to the laughter and love of Dee's new family. In Reality...

Two looming wars, two forced escapes and one secret deathbed.Dee turns fifty years old, comfortable and happy in both realities, living her modest life with her unconventional family. Then the world interferes.As her two worlds rage, Dee flees to Hereford, England. She lives in an old barn with unlikely company, desperately trying to heal herself after thirty years of combating the damage her father's death did to her psyche. Now, at long last,...

They want her talent. She wants her life. Luna lives in a run-down old farmhouse outside City of Serbia, her only companions the alcoholic Reverend Marić and a constantly growing pack of half-feral dogs. As one of the last Unchipped still alive in the area, she lives by her wits as a hacker and thief. When a spy from the City exposes her presence there, Luna is offered a choice: see her life destroyed or find the rebels who have been giving the Chipped...

A civilization reliant on AR. Unchipped refugees forced outside its walls. Can a lone underdog save humanity from itself? In the two years since the Great Affliction, the Happiness-Program has transformed a civilization on the brink of extinction into an organized, beautiful, and happy society. However, for the Unchipped--those whose chips can't connect to the system--living a comfortable life remains out of reach. Kaarina, one of the Unchipped, would...

In a war-torn world, they've found their sanctuary... if not for those bodies in the basement. The rebels against the Happiness-Program have finally found a place to hide, an abandoned resort in Iceland complete with a luxury hotel. Everything would be perfect here if not for their memories, haunting them each in different ways. For Bill, it's the friend he left behind in California... not knowing whether she's alive or dead. For Luna, it's the man...

He made her a murderer. Now he needs her to save his life. Dennis Jenkins is a playboy. The new leader of the Happiness Program, he spends his free time looking for love in virtual reality. It's an empty existence, haunted by the memory of the family he lost… and by his obsession with Maria, the lethal Unchipped woman who used to work for him. Now Maria has returned, and she has a message. Someone else in the Happiness Program wants him dead, and...

The whole world needs her… but she's completely alone. Margaret Lewis is an expert programmer, the hacker who betrayed the Happiness Program to help the Unchipped rebels. A hunted fugitive, she slips from one city to another recruiting people for a new society, a place where Chipped and Unchipped can live together as equals. Targeted by a vicious attack, Margaret disappears into a liquor bottle. She's content to be lost… until she finds out that...