Taya DeVere

Since the Great Affliction, the Happiness Program has transformed a civilization on the brink of extinction into an organized, beautiful, and happy society. However, for the Unchipped—those whose chips can't connect to the system—living a comfortable life remains out of reach....

It's 2085, the time of the Great Affliction. Continents are burning, land is disappearing, and humanity is destroying itself as mass shootings and suicides wipe out the population....

Depressed and abandoned after my father dies, I'm sent to a therapy center where I must decide between two doors. Behind one door awaits life in my home country where I will continue to scramble through a tangle of mistakes....

Jovan has been helping the Unchipped rebels by recruiting soldiers to join their cause. His girlfriend Luna is a rebel herself, but she doesn’t trust him enough to share her secrets. He’s Chipped and she isn’t, and that’s all there is to it....

Margaret Lewis is an expert programmer, the hacker who betrayed the Happiness Program to help the Unchipped rebels. A hunted fugitive, she slips from one city to another recruiting people for a new society, a place where Chipped and Unchipped can live together as equals....

All the women are gone. In their place, men have built the Prototypes. Every woman on earth is dead, taken by a mysterious disease. Prototype Y is a cutting-edge replacement designed and built to serve the needs of men.

Dennis Jenkins is a playboy. The new leader of the Happiness Program, he spends his free time looking for love in virtual reality. It’s an empty existence, haunted by the memory of the family he lost...and by his obsession with Maria....

As the unquestioned leader of the Happiness-Program, Laura is effectively the ruler of the entire world. The Unchipped rebels have been defeated, and all that’s left for her to do is to perfect the Chipping process so they can all be integrated into the new society....

The rebels against the Happiness-Program have finally found a place to hide: an abandoned resort in Iceland, complete with a luxury hotel. Everything would be perfect here, if not for their memories haunting them each in different ways....

Luna lives in a run-down old farmhouse outside City of Serbia, her only companions the alcoholic Reverend Marić and a constantly growing pack of half-feral dogs. As one of the last Unchipped still alive in the area, she lives by her wits as a hacker and thief....

Safely hidden behind a high fence that shields it from the rest of the world, Kinship Care provides a safe haven for children from City of England. Kinship Care is supported by the Happiness-Program...but there's a catch....

Bill is one of the lucky few. While the other Unchipped near the City of California scavenge for food amid the constant threat of gunfire, Bill's spent the last two years at the Mansion—a haven for the select few who design products to be sold in the green city....

Dee turns 50 years, comfortable and happy in both realities, living her modest life with her unconventional family. Then, the world interferes. As her two worlds rage, Dee flees to Hereford, England....

In reality one, Dee goes to California. Her new beginning pushes aside the past and the trauma she escaped. In reality two, life in her home country lulls her into a feeling of safety as she embarks upon the most important task of her lifetime: taking care of her baby....

Now that Kristian is gone, all Kaarina wants to do is to ride her horse. Live alone in the old barn. Leave the human race and its problems far behind. But it’s not that simple…not when the bots from City of Finland are hunting down and killing the animals one by one.

It’s the end of the world, and everyone’s getting a little bit strange. For Kristian, living in the Chip-Center and cut off from his friends, life has become a nearly endless sim fantasy, mostly centered around a long-lost love.

Iris has spent her whole life trying to please someone more powerful than her: first her mother, then her riding instructor Timothy Walker, then the great scientist Laura Solomon, head of the Happiness-Program and would-be savior of the world.

She’s the smartest little girl in the world… and the most dangerous too. Owena is a genius – as well as a killer – but she’s still only six years old. After escaping the underground bunker where she lived with Nurse Saarinen, her main goal has been to find more candy.

Long ago, before the war that took her life, Maria served as the driver and bodyguard for a man named Sebastian King....

Having agreed to work with the sinister Nurse Saarinen, Kaarina sets off on a quest through the cyberspace world of her own mind. Her goal is to find the weakness at the core of the Egg, allowing Nurse Saarinen to upload herself and destroy Laura Solomon.