Dark Ascension

Book excerpt: Dark Ascension is a tale of epic struggle, where strength, compassion and the bonds of friendship combine to fight evil and restore hope to an oppressed land. In the late 21st century, science has made it possible to maintain human brains after death. Robert Darrow, a brilliant scientist, has created an interface which allows these brains to be linked and experience life again as entries in a virtual world. Upon his death, Robert finds himself a resident of the world he helped create. A medieval setting, the land of Evermore is held in the despotic grip of Lilith, a murder victim who languished in the blackness of mind warping nothingness for decades before arriving in this virtual world. She as stolen the Avatar, a device designed to bridge communications between Evermore's human inhabitants and the real world. the project. Robert and his new allies, the other human entries, must risk all to overcome Lilith's conquering army and the legion of fierce creatures guarding her castle stronghold. Their only hope of survival is to recapture the Avatar before the experiment is terminated and their world along with it.