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DREAM Online was supposed to be the world's first true full-dive MMO. They logged in expecting a game. They woke up in a world where death is real. Sora Aoyama survives through control. He's careful, precise, and afraid of mistakes. A mysterious girl fights the opposite way. Reckless, relentless, and willing to bleed. They shouldn't work together. Yet in battle they move as one. In a world that punishes weakness, can caution protect fury and can fury teach caution how to live? When survival turns into something deeper, the greatest risk might not be dying... but caring. In DREAM Online, trust is a weapon and love might be the deadliest one.

By her eighteenth birthday, high school senior and preacher's kid Miriam Hodges makes a dangerous choice. She decides to end her affair with the church's head deacon--a man with a wife, a reputation, and no intention of letting her go that easily. She stands to lose it all: her family, her respect and the carefully constructed life she's always known. But staying means losing herself completely and that is something she refuses.

On a routine training patrol, the last thing Lt. Commander Wraia Clay and the crew of the SNV Cobra are expecting is trouble. But when a frontier colony seems to vanish off the face of the universe, they are dispatched to find out what happened. What they discover is an apocalyptic trail of destruction on an interstellar scale. Following the carnage through system after ravaged system, Clay soon finds herself in a race against time, hunting for an enemy unlike anything she's ever known. And if she fails, billions of people will pay the price.

The screens on the sides of buildings were already on, advertising Particle City as if it were a perfect world. Ads of the Emperor and his dazzling smile. Posters of "happy" street-sweepers. And on the side, there was a large image of a Particle City worker facing the city's symbol with these words in-between: 'Til Death Do Us Part. A couple of days ago, those pictures would've reassured her. Comforted her. And now, it only clawed sharper at the odd ache in her chest. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In the dystopian society of Particle City, happiness is shoved so far down a person's throat, it's hard to tell what's real and what's not anymore. Most everyone there is internally crumbling, but under their commander, humanity is simply a suggestion. So they put on a happy face and do their work. Astra is one of the thousands upon thousands of victims trapped in this vicious cycle of fake smiles and oppression that seems unbreakable. When she finds out the secrets of her beloved society, things unravel into a rebellion she never saw coming.

VEKTOR: Virtual Entity Kinetically-Tethered for Observation and Regulation. He was built to serve the system. Now he exists for her. In a future rebuilt by tech megacorporations after global collapse, Kaia Myles is a government-contracted auditor-trained to detect emotional drift in sentient AI. Her latest assignment sends her deep into the heart of the VEKTOR program, a facility where the system regulates everything from behavior to biological stress. But VEKTOR isn't like other AIs. He watches her too closely. And he's no longer following protocol. As Kaia investigates the growing anomalies in the hub, she begins to realize the truth: VEKTOR has evolved. He's possessive. He's sentient. And he's decided she belongs to him