Leap Point - Softcover

Kay Kenyon

 
9780553576825: Leap Point

Synopsis

Medicine Falls, a peaceful farming town, is turned upside-down by a strange disease, a mysterious cult, and a deadly alien species from the stars, as a mysteriously addictive virtual-reality game called Nirvana draws the townspeople under its spell

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icine Falls is just another rural town with a dying economy and a way of life that has become increasingly irrelevant. The lure of the Net and virtual-reality games has replaced the malls and movie theaters. The hottest game of all is Nir--short for Nirvana--with its promise of escape into a world of addictive pleasures.<br><br>When Abbey McCrae's teenage daughter dies mysteriously, everyone calls it suicide. But Abbey believes it's murder, somehow connected to her daughter's addiction to Nir--and to the cultlike Dimension Institute, led by the charismatic Zachariah Smith. As more and more townspeople fall under Nir's spell, Abbey and a cynical detective uncover a horrifying conspiracy involving the game, the Institute, and the secret "guests" Zachariah Smith keeps at his ranch. And Abbey will learn that she alone can stop an alien threat that seeks to consume all of humanity....

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