Dimensions
152 x 203 x 18mm
Computer security expert and reformed hacker Diana Highsmith has not ventured beyond her home for over a year - not since that fateful climbing vacation in Switzerland took Daniel's life. Haunted by the sound of Daniel's cries echoing across the gorge as he fell, Diana cannot stop thinking about the life they'll never have - grief that has transformed her into a recluse.
Diana doesn't have to shut herself off completely from the world, though; she and Daniel's best friend run a thriving internet security company. From home, in her pajamas, Diana assesses security breaches both potential and real and offers clients a way to protect themselves from hackers - from the kind of disruptions Diana herself used to create. Once Diana has a game plan she is able to meet with clients in OtherWorld, an Internet-based platform, using Nadia, an avatar she created herself. Diana knows she'll have to rejoin the "real world" eventually, but right now a few steps from her door each morning is all she can handle.
But when Diana's sister goes missing, Diana is forced to do the impossible: she must brave both the outside world and her own personal demons to find her. As one step outside leads to another, Diana soon finds that she is following a trail fraught with danger - and uncovering a web of deceit and betrayal, both online and real-life, that threatens not only her sister's life, but her own.
