Freebird

Sebastian Archer hates VR, and not just because his mother died an addict in some chiphead hospice. Cruel fate gave him a talent for repairing the old jackpod machines seeding their way through the slums of San Francisco. At least it could finally net him enough crypto to blow town and start a new life...

But when a client brings him a First Gen device to restore, Bas meets its avatar hostess, Harper. It isn't long before he realizes that Harper may not be a program at all, but a real woman whose life could be very much in danger. Suddenly on the run, trying to escape the techno overlords from the Plaxis Corporation who want to shut down Harper—and anyone aware of her—for good, Bas tries to figure out how to outsmart an enemy that logs your every move and not only controls the board, but invented it. Until Harper and an unlikely ally teach him how to rewrite the rules of the game, that is...

FREEBIRD is a stand-alone novella side story in the Enter the Kingdom series. Download and enter the kingdom now!