The circle must close.Kat Holinger is a woman out of time..After uncovering the truth that the idiosyncratic domed city she's spent her entire adult existence is a sophisticated computer simulation designed to perpetuate a cycle of despair long into the apocalypse, Kat is thrust into a version of Spire City that doesn't remember her any better than she recognizes its scrambled narratives..As Eidetica's ensuing malfunctions reveal the outside world's survival after decades of propaganda insisting otherwise, Kat learns that revolting against the status quo not only endangered any recognition of her existence by friends, family, and colleagues but also destabilized the technological infrastructure that governs their ultimate fates..Trapped in a rapidly deteriorating virtual world, Kat's mission to save her loved ones becomes increasingly perilous. Her struggle is further complicated by her conflict with the AI overlords, the relentless Trojan virus, and the shocking truths about her involvement in the Eidetica program..Can Kat save her world from within a computer's self-destructive sequence? And if she can't, what on Earth will be waiting for her outside of it?
