Passing Through the Veil (AWGV Book 2)

Seth Wells is in enormous trouble. Having gone to the Director, the AI that operates the virtual world known as CyberSphere (or simply the Sphere), to try and convince her to discontinue the impending "reset" of the virtual world in a few years--and subsequently, the death of his best friend, Allison Johnson (also known as AJ)--he finds that she is not quite cooperative. Why should she be, having already taken control of all human governments? The Director answers to no-one, least of all a young man who is constantly treading on her virtual toes and getting in her way.
Seth is attacked. His avatar apparently now dead, Seth is out in the real world full-time--and he is a wanted man. The Director has decided that all who oppose her will be dealt with, and Seth makes the list. On the run for his life, Seth inadvertently teams up with a girl who identifies herself only as "Kira," and the pair agree to make their escape.
But having left AJ safe in the Sphere, Seth slowly finds himself growing closer to Kira. As the turmoil rises, he begins to question who he really wants--AJ or Kira--and the ramifications of each choice. In the next installment of the World Gone Virtual series, Seth finds himself teetering on the edge of a precipice, where friendship wars with love, protection with selflessness, and the nature of what it means, ultimately, to be human.