We Were Gods

Don Lucas Ferez, captain of the Border Guard, is tasked with keeping the ancient evils out of the peaceful South. When the old gods reappear, and slaughter his fellow guardsmen, he is first to sound the alarm.In the real world, Luke Green is at his wit's end. The programmers of the world-spanning Game he helped create are back again. Including Rob, his sociopathic ex-boss. Most troubling, Rob has found a way to subvert those players rich enough to have Game interfaces implanted in their skulls.Things get very real very fast for Luke, as he confronts the collision between in-Game politics and real-world criminal activity. Entanglements continue as he meets Toni, a hacker in her own right. With her help they take a good look at his relationships, past and present, and start to figure out who they want to be. Raised by a photographer with a physics degree and a reference librarian, these days I make software easier to use and write science fiction.

Game tester Luke Green tried to retire peacefully, hiding in his basement apartment and living off his start-up earnings. But his old boss has had other plans, controlling players through their game implants.Luke, and his new friend Toni, have foiled Rob's first attempt. Bruised and broken, they face further complications as government agencies, and Toni's mob-boss father, get involved.Luke and Toni find themselves in a life-or-death battle where their best chance to survive comes from their ability to outmaneuver, outwit, and, perhaps most of all, outcode their enemies. Raised by a photographer with a physics degree and a reference librarian, these days I make software easier to use and write science fiction.