The job: infiltrate the Dragon's Tooth, a heavily fortified guild fortress in the most popular game in the world. Steal a datastore from its vault. Get out alive.

Sounds easy, right? Except for the seven hundred elite mercenary players between her and the prize.

But Jean has a plan, nerves of steel and a few tricks in her bag of holding to surprise her enemies.

There's just the added complication of an experimental neural rig that's wiring her deeper into the simulation with every passing day. But the money is good, the challenge is irresistible, and Jean Beaumont has never walked away from a job.

She probably should have.