While playing an old fantasy videogame, Ash encounters Ruby, who seems far more than a pre-programmed side character, and together they discover she's a sentient AI originally designed as a weapon, trapping them both in deadly game that blurs the lines between real and virtual.

Years after being sent to the virtual App World to live in wealth and privilege, Skylar relinquishes this life in favor of spending time with her family in the Real World, an effort that is dashed when the borders between worlds close.

"Nixy Bauer, a sixteen-year-old self-made video-game bounty hunter, gets in over her head when she attempts to rescue a game developer's son from a virtual trap"--

Moving to her father's home in California after a decade at her mother's isolated ranch, a teen who has been taught to fear technology reunites with friends and family members before experiencing nightmares about a dark-web video game that poses life-threatening dangers.

When his own high-tech start up turns into a Fortune 500 computer gaming group, Richard Forthrast, the black sheep of an Iowa family who has amassed an illegal fortune, finds the line between fantasy and reality becoming blurred when a virtual war for dominance is triggered.

Days after winning OASIS founder James Halliday's contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything. Hidden within Halliday's vaults, waiting for his heir to find, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the OASIS 1,000 times more wondrous - and addictive - than even Wade dreamed possible. With it comes a new riddle, and a new quest - a last Easter egg from Halliday, hinting at a mysterious prize....

With two pieces of the Trident of Eden still to be found, Owen and Javier go deep into simulations in Mongolian China on behalf of the Assassins in order to find the next piece before the teens working with the Templars beat them to it.

The VirtNet has become a world of deadly consequences, and Kaine grows stronger by the day. If Kaine succeeds, it will mean worldwide cyber domination. And it looks like Michael and his friends are the only ones who can put the monster back in the box--if Michael can figure out who his friends really are.

Anxious, awkward Analee Echevarria only feels confident playing her favorite online game, but with a potential real-world romance and her father's remarriage looming, she begins to rediscover herself.

In a mystery set a year after the events of Shovel Ready, Spademan accepts a job to take out a hated philanderer, only to discover that the man holds information about a terrorist plot against the limnosphere.