Lee Doty

Hollow Lee Doty

Publisher Marketing: The year is 2020: The only clues to the mystery of Jo's past are the scars that cover her body and the nightmares that crowd her dreams. Jo has her whole life ahead of her, but only darkness behind her--complete amnesia from a car crash that left her in a coma years ago. Now Jo works in a preschool, has a perfect boyfriend, a caring therapist, and a crushing inferiority complex. But as she tries to uncover her past, she realizes that her past is hunting her. Both on the streets of Chicago and in her dreams, strangely familiar threats are stalking ever closer, alternately tantalizing and terrifying her. The year is 2119: 99 years after Jo's story begins, Ash lives in a dead, hollow world. Ash is one of the few survivors of an apocalyptic plague called "The Palsy" that decimated the world almost a hundred years ago. The few remaining humans live out their empty days in withered bodies, unable to taste or smell and barely able to feel. They live in a permanent hospice, watched over by mechanical caretakers called the Clerics. Like everyone else, Ash has amnesia. She remembers nothing before her last catastrophic seizure four years ago. In 2119, the only thing to do besides slouch toward the wheelchair and then the grave, is to enter the Hallowed World, an immersive virtual reality game run by the Clerics. In the Hallowed world, four-person teams of soldiers compete to complete missions rise to the top of the leaderboards. Ash is a Phenom in the Hallow, driving her team to the very top of the leaderboards. She is a living legend in a dying world. Everything changes when the Clerics come to Ash with a new mission and a shocking secret. Contributor Bio:  Doty, Lee Lee Doty, the author of "Out of the Black", writes real-time trading systems for a major investment bank.