Extropia

In 2164, reality is something you can buy. The wealthy live online in a gleaming virtual world wired directly into their bodies from birth. Those left Outside keep the lights on in an abandoned world.

Bache Parker is eighteen, exiled, and forgotten. His bioware was destroyed in a hack gone wrong, and now he spends his days tending the comatose bodies of people living the life he lost. When a blind girl from a neo-Luddite community asks him to help deliver a virus that will bring the Inside crashing down, he should walk away. He doesn’t.

Ayven Reynolds has never seen the Inside. She hasn’t seen anything at all, until Bache wires her in, and the world her people call an abomination gives her back her sight. Now the virus is live, the stakes are real, and everything both of them thought they believed is suddenly negotiable.

Extropia is a YA cyberpunk novel about power, identity, and what it costs to see the world clearly — even when you’ve been blind your whole life.