Josh Weiss-Roessler

Book blurb...

What if your future self told you the world was ending, and the only way to stop it was to… go to school?!

Lu Jacobs used to believe if you did everything right, things would work out.

Until her grandma died. Even though everyone said Lu could save her.

So she stopped trying. Instead, she spends her time in The Aftermath, a VR game with clear rules and consequences, and a leaderboard her team has fought their way to the top of.

Then her future self shows up.

An artificial intelligence is rewriting the past. The future is collapsing. And the key to stopping it is hidden inside Prescott Academy, the most advanced school in the world.

Hoverboard parks. Teachers who have invented microscopic medical drones and hacked the most secure networks. The VRoom, where students live their lessons.

More than enough to keep Lu from thinking about her grandma.

But somewhere inside it all, there’s also an AI pretending to be human. And if Lu can’t find it in time, the future becomes a virtual prison no one can escape.

Lu does not have a plan.

But she does have her team.

That will have to be enough.