A chance for a new life in a virtual world. Would you take it?
In the near future, a company using new technology, creates permanent alternative lives in virtual realities. Worlds where you can choose the body you inhabit, where you can learn new skills, where you have a chance to live again.
This is the choice that faces Arthur, crippled with arthritis and facing a life of pain.
It is the solution created for long-term prisoners, like Jim, who will otherwise spend the rest of their lives in jail.
They enter Aitre, a virtual reality set in the medieval period. There, they build new lives, dealing with the issues and problems that occur as the world evolves.
But as the project nears completion, an inexplicable wave of brutality shatters their new lives. Inhabitants of both realities have to find and neutralise the threat before the project collapses, trapping those left in Aitre in a virtual wasteland.
Contents
Prologue. 5
Chapter 1 The hospital 10
Chapter 2 The project 14
Chapter 3 Project base. 40
Chapter 4 The medieval world. 47
Chapter 5 Nick, the Project centre. 69
Chapter 6 The prison, Jim and Jack. 76
Chapter 7 The military section. Glen. 98
Chapter 8 Inside the Project Tech Centre. 109
Chapter 9 Arthur, working in Patrols. 136
Chapter 10 Castle life, the Duke. 150
Chapter 11 Alice, the change. 155
Chapter 12 Life in the forge. 169
Chapter 13 Edna, schooling. 178
Chapter 14 Havistock and Brimington. 188
Chapter 15 Ioventra the kickoff 198
Chapter 16 The fight back. 208
Chapter 17 The destruction starts. 214
Chapter 18 A new baby and the breakout of the six. 217
Chapter 19 The storm breaks. 222
Chapter 20 The attack at the forge. 240
Chapter 21 The final Transference. 252
Chapter 22 The act of Transference and the change afterwards. 261
Chapter 23 Gathering the opposition. 267
Chapter 24 Prisoners. 274
Chapter 25 The forward plan. 282
Chapter 26 The Duke. 300
Chapter 27 The raids on the Toaks. 305
Chapter 28 Back in the project centre. 315
Chapter 28 The Castle the assault starts. 322
Chapter 29 Hydra. 344
Chapter 30 Mopping up. 355
Chapter 31 Jim and Jack. 366
Chapter 32 Alice. 369
Chapter 33 A little bit of magic. 373
Book 2 Sarthus. 376
Prologue The Aftermath of the battle at the castle. 376
