
The future favors the bold.
Sneak Peek
Chapter 1 Synopsis
You play yourself, just accepted into Pathways Higher Learning Institute, a cutting-edge university using technological immersive learning like never before. If you do well here, they wave a wand and—bee-bobitty-boo—all your wildest dreams come true. The institute is the first of its kind, sponsoring students from every walk of life—rich and poor, urban and rural, immigrant and native-born citizen, every ethnicity and religion. Everyone seeks to understand each other, respecting unique perspectives and celebrating differ—HA. Sorry. Started choking on my own BS.
It’s Game of Egos and Hormones up in here. You end up starting school a few weeks late and immediately step into the center of the maelstrom.
Thankfully, you have your new student guide and budding bestie, Zoe, to help you navigate all these volatile cliques. While Zoe is giving you a tour, you stumble upon a colorful disagreement between East Side, led by Dontrell, and the Royals, the wealthy, elite kids, led by Kai, half-Japanese star soccer player. Threats are made, but before things get too interesting, Zoe whisks you off for the rest of your tour.
Due to circumstances mostly out of your control, the game shack—territory claimed by notoriously wealthy and influential Royals—goes up in flames. Like literal, burn-to-the-ground flames. You didn’t do it, but your high tech wristband puts you as the last on the scene. Zoe, your hour-long bestie, thinks she’s doing you a solid by erasing the evidence but not before wunder-boy Kai gets a security alert that an unknown person entered his dominion. The good news: Kai thinks it was really East Side. The bad: he gives you one week to find the real culprit, or he’s going to the police, the end of both your and Zoe’s dreams.