The Wolf of Descarta

A Cyberpunk romp across a vast, Dystopian universe...Jaren Reese is just another red collar trapped at the bottom of Descarta's genetic caste system. But in the Dream Box, he has forged a new, digital identity for himself--Balmus, the Wolf Knight. Balmus has long since carried a torch for Petra, another Linker in Cyber, but he doesn't know her, not really. Outside of the Dream Box she is just another one of his fantasies. But Brea Morgen, who shares Reese's labor shift, is as real as they come--a living, breathing person who desires him for who he truly is, not merely what he pretends to be.Reese's masquerade ends when a hostile life form evolves inside the Dream Box. Now his only hope of being Balmus again is to join a team of gamers and hackers commissioned to return to Cyber and investigate the new threat: Renton Hayes, a legendary hacker in government captivity on the Homeworld.Isaac Zephyr, a dead-eye cyborg living through first person shooters after his discharge from the Corps.Miyoko Hirigashi, a member of a radical underworld faction and coder extraordinaire.Janus Almani, an old mystic whose ascetic ability to link minds defies scientific explanation. Brea Morgen, who--despite being a red collar--might hold the key to restoring the system. Reese is given the chance of a lifetime in leading them, but soon he must decide how much of himself he's willing to lose. The Dream Box has created a new way of life, and the looming war to control it must be waged on two fronts--the physical and the virtual.