The world believes the botnet virus to be destroyed; Ridley Pierce is less certain. In a lonely chat-room, he meets Beta, who claims who to have evolved from the intelligence. At the same time, Diane Kingsolver is haunted by the knowledge that her infant daughter's autism is the result of genetic engineering. She vows to find out who introduced the gene into the population. Neither realizes that powerful forces want to stop them before the true cause of the Great Collapse comes to light.
Book 1 of The Cerenovo Series explores how corporate and governmental hacking might result in a catastrophic failure of complex networks controlling critical systems. Book 2: Exogenetic examines how the genetics of the world's population might be manipulated. Book 3:Entanglement introduces Lucy, a sentient AI who learns that deception is a key aspect to survival. Book 4: Entropy deals with the concept of transcendence, examining the nature of simulations and reality itself.