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Killstream: The Arena
Ready Player One meets Rocky in this family-friendly, explosive cyberpunk LitRPG series.
Blake Barnes works a dead-end job at Galaxy Burgers to help his mom keep up with the bills. But when he loses hours at work, he only has a few months to find a solution. His best friend, Rhys, convinces him to try a competitive VR game called The Arena, and Blake's whole world is flipped upside down.
Get ready for the event of a lifetime. Do you have what it takes to reach the top?
" The Arena is jam packed with the kind of non-stop action in the digital VR Arena that drops the reader directly into the game. Kessler's sharp, vivid writing opens up a whole new (virtual) world." --Winston Crutchfield, publisher of The Starman Saga and The Intergalactic League
"It was a fun gaming adventure story, without any of the junk that is in so many books these days." --5-star Amazon review
Blake Barnes works a dead-end job at Galaxy Burgers to help his mom keep up with the bills. But when he loses hours at work, he only has a few months to find a solution. His best friend, Rhys, convinces him to try a competitive VR game called The Arena, and Blake's whole world is flipped upside down.
Get ready for the event of a lifetime. Do you have what it takes to reach the top?
" The Arena is jam packed with the kind of non-stop action in the digital VR Arena that drops the reader directly into the game. Kessler's sharp, vivid writing opens up a whole new (virtual) world." --Winston Crutchfield, publisher of The Starman Saga and The Intergalactic League
"It was a fun gaming adventure story, without any of the junk that is in so many books these days." --5-star Amazon review
343 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 30, 2025
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November 17, 2025
When even your fast food service job gets you replaced by a robot, it's time to make a lifestyle change. Enter a world where mega-corporations dominate the world through wage-slavery and the largest commerce in the world is found in virtual space. Blake is about to get paid to play video games - if he can figure out the controls in time, if he can make it to the top tier in the Arena, and if he doesn't lose his only friend in the process. Killstream: The Arena is jam packed with the kind of non-stop action in the digital VR Arena that drops the reader directly into the game. Kessler's sharp, vivid writing opens up a whole new (virtual) world. Suitable and approachable for middle-grade readers and older, The Arena contains video game violence only, no obscene language, and no sexual content. I received an ARC from the author.
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