Simulation: The First Fracture - Paperback

by Jonathan Farmer (Author)

Alex just wants a normal day.

He hasn't had one in weeks. Every time Alex closes his eyes, he wakes up back at the beginning - same room, same glowing button, same six clusters of binary numbers burned into his mind. At first, resetting the day feels like a cheat code: no consequences, no mistakes that stick, no reason not to take whatever he wants. But the longer the loop goes on, the more Alex realizes something else isn't resetting with it.

When Alex discovers he gains a new power with every reset, the loop stops feeling like a prison and starts feeling like a doorway - one that opens onto a companion who isn't what she seems, a best friend who might not be real at all, and a name that keeps surfacing in every version of the day: Janice.

As the loop breaks down state by state and the world itself starts glitching apart, Alex, a fiercely loyal dragon, and a growing list of people he can't afford to lose race across a collapsing country toward the one place the binary code keeps pointing him: the top of the Empire State Building - and the truth about who's really running the simulation.

SIMULATION: First Fracture is Book One in a fast-paced, high-concept adventure for readers who like their friendships real, their stakes higher than they look, and their heroes a little unsure whether they're the good guy or just the last one standing.