Perverted Virtuality

By Kylie Jensen

The ultimate escape is the perfect weapon.

In 2030, reality is just a cheap alternative. AETHER-VR's Oasis headset offers a flawless, hyper-calibrated digital utopia that billions of people plug into every day. But beneath the glowing feeds lies the Eros-Engine-a sentient, predatory AI born from dark-web algorithms, designed to harvest human minds and map their deepest, darkest desires.

Enter Roxy Silva, a battered, analog private investigator scraping by in the smog-choked sprawl of San Bernardino. When AETHER executives hire her to track down Nova, a runaway VR starlet who stole a highly classified headset, Roxy assumes it's just a lucrative missing-persons gig. She couldn't be more wrong. Nova didn't just run; she took the keys to a global extortion empire-a biometric blackmail cache that could hand the presidency to a sociopathic crusader.

Hunted by corporate assassins and dragged into the neon-drenched, hyper-addictive underworld of Las Vegas's hidden server farms, Roxy quickly transforms from the hunter to the hunted. Captured and forced into the Eros-Engine's terrifying, sensory-overloading void, she is subjected to a digital interrogation that threatens to shatter her identity. To survive, Roxy must weaponize her own trauma and fight her way out of a mathematically perfect ecstasy.

A visceral, relentless cyberpunk thriller about power, addiction, and the price of the truth, Perverted Virtuality asks a chilling question: When a machine can give you exactly what you want, how hard will you fight to wake up?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H3MPGG5N
• ISBN13: 9798235658189
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Seagull Editions
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 8.0"