Redemption Man

In the year 2056, after a devastating cyber war, a falsely incarcerated tech geek has to survive a real-life World of Warcraft game against AI beasties in order to earn his freedom.
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Mercy Nightingale is a journalist for the redemption fields, reporting the good, the bad, and the carnage. She hates the carnage, but she loves her job, and she does her best to humanize a mostly inhumane practice.

JJ Warner is Mercy's next assignment, and this so-called cyber threat has enough ties to the matrix to get him fifty years. On the heels of a catastrophic cyber war, he is the enemy. But Mercy's sympathy kicks-in when she realizes JJ isn't a bad guy. He was arrested to catch a bigger fish, a hacker named Eon.

While JJ battles AI monsters, navigates booby-trapped labyrinths, and decodes cryptic messages to save his butt, Mercy goes beyond the call of entertainment journalism to discover two life-changing truths;

She is falling in love with JJ, and...

The human race is unwittingly part of a game designed to end when man is one with the machine.

CONTENT WARNING: F-bombs get dropped in this story, among other expletives. And when you see this * content warning * at the start of a chapter, it was put there to warn readers of sexual content.

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