Wild and addicting! I couldn’t tear my eyes from Michael Stevens masterpiece, a blend of high-tech computer games, gangsters, and medieval Florence that rivals a Steve Berry thriller for chill-inducing fun. –Shane Gericke, national best-selling author of CUT TO THE BONE

Description

Longing for escape from his mundane existence as a Stanford computer science major, Jason Lind signs up to play Fortuna, an online role-playing game set in Renaissance Florence. From the first, fateful mouse click, Jason tumbles into the vibrant, lush, anonymous world of Fortuna. Swept up in this highly complex, highly addictive game of fame, fortune, and power, Jason quickly transitions from casual gamer to compulsive player.

Soon tangled up in a steamy virtual love triangle, Jason becomes obsessed with breaking Fortuna’s code of anonymity. But Fortuna is anything but fun and games, and when a sizeable debt incurred in the game spills over into reality, Jason is forced to leverage the legacy of his father, a high-tech legend killed in a car accident years before, to pay off the debt.

What started as a great escape may only leave Jason trapped, as the game that transported Jason deep into the past exposes a shocking, present-day reality. In the world of Fortuna, it’s not how you play the game; it’s if you survive.

What People Are Saying…

A wonderful exploration of the slippery slope of the seduction from a virtual world, FORTUNA is intricately detailed, well-researched, and thoroughly developed. –Fresh Fiction

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Michael Stevens has written a highly entertaining high-tech thriller that grabs the reader’s attention from the start. His descriptions of the lush, vivid world of Renaissance Florence gives credence to the draw players experience whenever they login into such a site. Hopefully we will see more thrilling novels from this marvelous storyteller. Bella Online’s Mystery Book Review

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