It is no longer just an online game. Seventeen-year-old Cael is a bridger, someone whose job consists on saving people who get trapped in the Bridge, the ethereal space between the real world and VirtuaNet, the world's leading online game. His high genetic compatibility with the online world allows him to bridge, but it comes at a price. Any injury his character sustains in the game, he will suffer in the real world, so he has made sure to stay away from the game. Until now. When an influential young woman in need of someone who'd risk his life in VirtuaNet offers Cael the opportunity of a lifetime, he will discover that some things seem too good to be true. Will this be Cael's last game?