caffeineandcomputers

** Spoilers ahead for Vengeful **After his supposed death at the hands of Sydney Clarke, Eli Ever's body is placed in a cold storage unit at an EON facility where he will one day be studied, but never again draw breath... or so they think. June, however, knows better. Immortals can't die, they can only be temporarily contained, and this one might be just what she needs to carry out her latest plan for revenge.Cities away, Victor Vale is still dying. He's tried everything he can think of to reverse-engineer Dr. Haverty's power-blocking serum, but without the dead scientist's notes, he's at a loss. With time running out, he's only chance is to find the one EON agent who might still have access to the information the organization buried, but he just so happens to be the same target Eli and his new group of allies are searching for.Once again, the former roommates' paths seem destined to cross -- or collide. After years as friends and more as enemies, no one knows them better than each other, making them perfect foils... or maybe something more.Fanfiction based on V. E. Schwab's Villains series. Set one-to-two years after Book Two, Vengeful.…

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)…