Author Description

At her eighteenth birthday party, Liliana Blaire finally gets to Swap: a personalized bot will take over her body, while Lily herself will join the rest of the human population in a fantastic simulation called Zurithia. In Zurithia, the deaf can hear. The stars can sing. An endless supply of magical adventures awaits. After a life of her AI-controlled mother forcing her to wear painful silver ears to correct her hearing, Lily can't wait. But when her best friend Michael rejects his Swap, Lily discovers that the charming, magical Zurithia commercials are lying. If she Swaps, she will be utterly alone, locked away in her own pocket of simulation separate from everyone else. And she will never get to return to her body. As Michael searches for a group of human resistors, Lily must fight the transformation she's yearned for her whole life. But with a vicious bot competing for control of her brain, saying no to her Swap is more dangerous than she anticipated. Yet more than just her own soul hangs in the balance-a human hiding behind screens has programmed a reboot that will wash away the souls of everyone still trapped in Zurithia, and Lily might be the only one who can stop him.