What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

(Ran out of character limit in the title) The protagonist is then teased by the other members of the group, and eventually he discovers he's more attracted to the less pretty girl who is actually the person he had the online crush on. Also, someone in the group starts killing them (though there was a complication about that part of the plot which I can't remember).

There's also a scene elsewhere in the book (or a different book in the series) where the main character is detained (either by police or some security service) and he escapes by wrapping a paperclip around an electrical plug and shorting out the circuit.

This series was published somewhere between 1995 and 2005, which is about when I read it. The covers were entirely black across the whole series and each book in the series had its title and subtitle in a different color from the other books.

The particular plot mentioned in the topic title belonged to (I believe) book 3 or 4 in the series (I could be wrong), and the text color for the title/subtitle on the cover was yellow.

I specifically remember seeing some of the books available for purchase in a Waldenbooks, so it almost certainly wasn't a small printing or obscure publisher. Printed in English, published in the US, and I believe the stories were all set in the US.

I could be mistaken about it being targeted at young adult readers, but the main character(s) were definitely teenagers, and hacking was a key theme across the whole series.

It's definitely not Stine's Fear Street, Greenland's The Specialists, Deaver's Blue Nowhere, Pike's Slumber Party, Sandford's The Kidd series, Ciencin's Lurker Files, Gresh & Wienberg's Termination Node, anything by Neal Stephenson, Wild's Hacker series, or Bischoff's Hackers movie novelization. (I've been looking for a while and those are all the titles that have come up in the process of trying to hunt this down.)

Could it be the danger.com series by Jordan Cray? The first book is Gemini7.

Edit: the ski cabin one might be Shiver.

Becca wrote: "Could it be the danger.com series by Jordan Cray? The first book is Gemini7.

Edit: the ski cabin one might be Shiver."

That is absolutely what I was looking for. Thank you!

Glad to help!