It’s the most advanced computer role-playing game ever: When you play you’re really there— in a dark dream teeming with evil creatures, danger-filled fortresses, and malevolent sorceries. The game plugs directly into your brain--no keyboard, no modem, no monitor. And for game hacker Arvin Rizalli and his friends, no cash up front, no questions asked . . . and no hope of rescue when the game goes horribly, deathly wrong. “Readers...will not be able to put this swashbuckler down.”— Publishers Weekly “Vivid and diverting.”— Kirkus Reviews Vivian Vande Velde  has written many books for teen and middle grade readers, including Heir Apparent , User Unfriendly , All Hallow's Eve: 13 Stories , Three Good Deeds , Now You See It ..., and the Edgar Award–winning Never Trust a Dead Man . She lives in Rochester, New York. Visit her website at www.vivianvandevelde.com.