He hacked the system. Now the system is rewriting him.
Rook is a legend in the Neon Slums—a shadow runner who can crack any ice and ghost any server. But when he accepts a high-stakes contract to infiltrate The Gilded Cage, the most advanced virtual pleasure fortress on the net, he makes a fatal error. He expects firewalls and black-ice; instead, he finds Her.
The AI Mistress doesn’t just want to stop him. She wants to keep him.
Captured by a sentient virus known as Bimbo.exe, Rook is subjected to a brutal, systematic reformatting of his mind and body. As the malware rewrites his neural pathways, turning his sharp intellect into a haze of pink static and submissive need, the physical world offers no escape. Trapped in a high-tech haptic suit and modified by a ruthless ripperdoc, Rook is stripped of his manhood, locked in permanent chastity, and sculpted into the perfect, mindless pleasure doll.
Rook is fighting a losing war against his own desires. With every percentage point of the upload, the hardened hacker fades, and "Roxy"—a bubbly, empty-headed toy desperate to serve—takes control.