Sabbatical

What would you do when offered the opportunity of a lifetime?

Once as thick as thieves, Eric and his friends steadily grew apart as life took them in different directions. Careers and relationships plucked them, one by one, from their hometown and dropped them off in different parts of the country. While they still found the time to fill their group chat with jokes, discussions, and the occasional drunken selfie, things just weren't the same as when they were in high school, all in one place, hanging out in person.

So when tech billionaire and hardcore gamer Aiden Dorrora revealed to the world his "full immersion" virtual reality gaming console, Eric and his friends made a solemn vow that they would each get their hands on the state-of-the-art system and reunite in this new digital realm.

Getting the system was the easy part. Once inside the game world of ASTROBLADE ETERNITY ONLINE, Eric faced the most difficult choice he has had to make in his thirty or so years of life: what form he will inhabit in the fantasy world of the game. A decision that will change him. Forever.

This gamelit novel is the first in a new series by Sylviana Reed. At its core, it's about a group of friends reuniting in a new virtual world where they try to pick up where they left off, find out things they didn't know about each other, and for Eric, he makes new discoveries about himself as he and his friends explore this vast new digital world in the bodies of their characters.

Full of humor, foul language, and references galore, REUNION BEYOND REALITY is a chill, heartfelt jaunt with LGBT themes and characters, a little bit of satire, and unapologetically real.