2519. People on Earth no longer age or die. Their bodies are frozen and they begin a new life in the virtual world of the Game. Jax is almost eighteen. She works twelve hours a day and dreams of becoming a legal adult and plunging into the coveted idyllic life in the Game. But one day an unknown bomber attacks the game server, one of the virtual worlds collapses, and eleven thousand immortal players die as a result of an emergency defrost. Death has entered the Game for the first time in hundreds of years, and Jax is being interrogated as one of the suspects in the bombing. If such a mark appears on her file, she will never be allowed to enter the Game. But one of the legendary founders of virtual reality invites Jax to join the investigation. To protect the world of the Game and save her own future, she must find a real bomber, only he turns out to be much more dangerous than anyone could have imagined...