Book One of the critically acclaimed Onyros Series - this what readers say:

"If you're a fan of Altered Carbon, Red Rising, or The Matrix - you need to read this." // "I devoured this. The pacing is wonderful. The action and mystery kept me enthralled... Five stars, I want more." // "This book... !? Holy cow. What a ride." // "I read 80% of this story in under 24 hours. It grabs you by the collar and doesn't let go -- gritty, immersive, and not quite like anything else" // "The worldbuilding is lush and gritty in the best way possible. Gave me delicious Altered Carbon vibes while being entirely its own thing."

There is no greater prison than perception itself.

And the Lamatheans -- godlike programmers -- know this. They've facilitated humanity's final exodus -- not toward the stars, but inward.

Welcome to Onyros: a vast digital sprawl of synthetic perfection. A place where perception creates the terrain. Where the mind can't rebel, because it doesn't know it's being caged.

With millions logged into the network while their bodies decay in the industrial megalopolis of Bellgraph, the human species hurtles toward an evolutionary dead end. Neural syndromes erode language. Identity. And soon -- thought itself.

Logan Bochniak is the lowest of the low. Excluded from the network, he's a discarded, damaged ex-mercenary tasked with extracting people who've lost the Lamatheans' goodwill -- or fallen to neural decay. Hunted by relentless enforcers in a city that devours the weak, Logan is driven by one thing: finding his way home. To the family who saved him once, when he was just a boy. To the people he believes still love him. Still wait for him.

But when the enigmatic Estat pulls him into a web of conspiracies and fractures, Logan uncovers a hidden layer of reality -- one that even the Lamatheans fear. Now, he must ask: how far will he go to get home?

And can he face what lies beyond the cage of perception?

Splinter launches you into Onyros -- a virtual reality dystopia where thought is currency. A cerebral, high-stakes sci-fi epic set in a decaying digital empire, where fractured realities, neural warfare, and synthetic immortality collide -- and intricate world-building meets high paced story-telling.

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