Three Point Eight – Kobo eBook

Three point eight seconds is all it takes to lose yourself. Four is all it takes to lose everyone.

At 5:41 a.m., Lucas Torres puts on a headset and logs in to Eidolon, the game he was sure would be an escape from grief. It isnt. A woman at a shrine whispers his name and cries. Strangers quote patch notes for a game that launched an hour ago. And his reflection moves 3.8 seconds behind him, a delay that grows a little more every time he looks.

Beyond the edge of the map, a glitch hunter named Sable is counting too. She knows what hunts reflections. She knows what happens when the number reaches four. And she knows something Lucas does not yet remember.

Back in a cramped apartment, a sealed envelope waits on his desk. It has no edge. It will not open. It is addressed in a hand he cannot place.

Part techno-thriller, part philosophical puzzle, Three Point Eight asks what is real when the rules were never written for you, what we owe the people we cannot save, and who gets to decide when a story ends.

For readers of simulation-theory fiction, mind-bending science fiction, and thrillers with a beating heart.