While there, she is attacked by the apparent leader of the place’s inhabitants and, in a measure of self-defense, has the boss killed by her security detail. One of his clients, Daedra West, is sent on a diplomatic mission to a place known as The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The concurrent narrative follows Wilf Netherton, a London publicist in the distant future. After a few shifts, Flynne witnesses a woman graphically and surreally murdered and begins to wonder if what she witnessed is actually part of the game or not. The job consists of providing security detail in a video game, and since Flynne is an expert gamer, she accepts the offer. Flynne Fisher is asked by her brother, Marine veteran Burton Fisher, to sub in for him on a side job at which he has been employed. The narrative follows two different plot lines and begins in the near future. The guide refers to the Kindle edition, published in 2014. As the suspense and mystery build, the characters use what are termed peripherals as a means of time travel thus, the present and the future worlds collide. Having been an eyewitness to a real murder that takes place in the future, Flynne, her brother, and their friends are thrust into the unique position of communicating with people of the future. Flynne Fisher, the protagonist finds herself witnessing a crime while filling in for her brother on a security detail for what she thinks at first is a game.

The novel follows two different plot lines, one that takes place in the near future and one that takes place in the distant future.

The peripheral book series in order