The Wolf of Descarta

Jaren Reese is just another red collar, trapped at the bottom of Descarta's genetic caste system. But in the Dream Box, he can forge a new digital identity for himself. In the Dream Box, he is Balmus the Wolf Knight.

Balmus has long since carried a torch for the linker Petra but he doesn't know her, not really. Outside of the Dream Box she is nothing more than a fantasy, a dream that is out of his reach. But Brea is the real thing. A living and breathing person outside of the Dream Box-and Jaren needs to decide if he is willing to give up his fantasy for reality.

When the Dream Box that Jaren depends on crashes due to the evolution of a hostile A.I. life form, a secret military branch commissions a team of gamers and hackers to go back into the corrupted Dream Box to eliminate the threat and Jaren is given the chance of a lifetime-though it comes at a price-and Jaren now needs to decide just how much he's willing to lose because the war about to be waged will be one on two fronts: the corporeal and the virtual.