L. J. McLaughlin
WRITING BLOG
the modular Abyss
In the Verse, Bill Maxley is a corporate titan ruling a digital empire where the elite wear designer Avatars while workers build clothes that don't exist. Behind this mask is Elizabeth "Lizzie" Addison, a nobody who created the perfect digital disguise—until her mask slips.
As her empire collapses, Lizzie is caught in a lethal triangle: Elton Sharp's billionaire zealots seek godhood through forbidden mind-altering technology; Eden, a fanatical hacker plots a tech-free judgment day; and Phoebus, a new form of consciousness neither human nor artificial, gorges on billions of synchronized human brains within the Verse.
With enemies converging and realities blurring, Lizzie must transform herself to survive. Her choice becomes stark: surrender to comfortable slavery in-Verse or fight for a freedom as painful as it is real.
In Progress: New Patrons
They sacrificed their marriage for ambition. A wife, transformed through suffering into a media titan with extraordinary abilities, Her auteur husband gone without a trace, swallowed in a Hollywood cult of cannibalistic elites.
15 years later, Vivian Reyes receives fragments of her missing husband's memories in her dreams. As she pieces together the truth about their failed love, powerful forces converge around her, convinced these memory fragments hold the secret to ultimate power.
In a world where loyalty is currency and truth is fluid, Vivian must choose: use Ashton's memories to reclaim what they once had or surrender to the darkness that's consumed them both.
