A simple tablet repair hides a digital nightmare.
When a routine screen repair on a customer's glitching tablet turns into a terrifying portal to a corrupted dimension, Dean—a humble phone repair technician—is ripped from his workshop and thrust into a fight for survival.
Transformed into the warrior-magician AndrasOmen and joined by his loyal, cybernetically-enhanced companion Digapup, Dean must navigate a distorted, digital copy of his home city. The streets are crawling with "ghost-apps"—mindless, corrupted shells patrolling a jagged, cold reality. Their only objective: find and destroy the Digitizer, a monstrous entity coalescing from broken screens and twisted cables that seeks to consume their reality.
Armed with the Staff of the Ether and intense digital powers, AndrasOmen and Digapup must sever the connection to this digital rot before their own world is lost to the void forever.
Will they be the cure, or will they be erased?
Jacob Roth is an author and tech enthusiast based in Sedan, Minnesota, who writes children's books with his wife, JoAnna, including titles like Shutter Crusher and Digitizer. A dedicated student of tech repair, he actively troubleshoots device firmware and advocates for digital accessibility for neurodivergent individuals.
JoAnna Roth is an author who writes children's books alongside her husband, Jacob. Together, the couple advocates for improved digital accessibility for neurodivergent individuals, focusing on issues like corporate "dark patterns" in e-commerce that impact those with cognitive and psychiatric differences