caffeineandcomputers

A tech-saavy cyborg with too much time on her hands. A quick-thinking detective with a fascinating new case. A mad scientist on the verge of a groundbreaking advancement.A young girl wants nothing more than to lead an interesting life, but is constantly faced with empty time and incessant boredom. When she turns to computers to pass the time, she quickly finds herself entangled in a world of less-than-legal programming, soon earning a reputation as an exceptional hacker. When she discovers someone else with a mind like hers, it doesn't take long for her to become preoccupied by the mystery of him, and she longs to find out his identity. Unfortunately, a clever international detective is a little too determined to track her down, and a scientist with a disregard for ethics has other plans for her, involving an experiment that he believes could revolutionize humanity, but at what cost?Three people, three stories, three obsessions, intertwined in this sci-fi tale set in a cyberpunk-inspired world in the year 2120. What do teenage hacker Kalix Raven, UNBI Agent Rachel Cassanova, and Dr. Rovart Blayne all have in common?They're all a little obsessed.(Book 1 of 3)[Watty's 2022 Shortlist]…

caffeineandcomputers

WARNING: Description contains spoilers for the previous book, Clashing Obsessions.--After fleeing Japan two months earlier, Kalix lives in London under the fake identity Elizabeth Nightingale. In an attempt to lie low and avoid attention from the authorities, she's signed off the dark web chats, instead working as an IT specialist in a computer repair shop in Soho and hiding from the law with the help of newfound friend and fellow hacker Darien Quintrell.In Copenhagen, Agent Rachel Cassanova has taken a leave of absence from the UNBI after cybercriminal xCodebreaker01 managed to slip from her grasp. But with new evidence coming to light, she is drawn back to her job and obsession.After his new corporate sponsor's failure to capture the ideal human test subject for his bioengineering experiments, Dr. Rovart Blayne returns to work, struggling to move past the setback and impatient to get what he wants. Now that he's finally began to make progress, another halt in his life's work seems intolerable.When a bored teenage girl becomes an international fugitive, a workaholic investigator becomes the UNBI's most obsessively clever disaster, and an ambitious researcher becomes a globally controversial mad scientist, normalcy has long been left behind, in favour of something else:Infamy.(Book 2 of 3)…