Solitaire

'Since the moment she came into the world, Ren 'Jackal' Segura has been treated differently. As a Hope, she is a symbol of the highest principles of human society and is guaranteed a position of influence in the global government once she comes of age. But two months before she is to assume the role she has been preparing for her entire life - when she will leave her home to represent the massive corporate entity that houses, feeds, and employs her and everyone around her - Jackal discovers that everything she believes, everything she is, is a lie'. 'Saddled with a crushing burden she dares not share with anyone - not even Snow, her closest web mate, her dearest heart - she must live as if nothing has changed. But on a recreational outing with the others in her web, she inadvertently finds herself at the center of a maelstrom of terror and catastrophe and in a single instant, Jackal Segura is a Hope no longer. In the collective eyes of the society that once revered her, she has become someone else - a pariah and a murderer'. Now she must suffer a terrible punishment. Agreeing to participate in a 'rehabilitation' experiment, she surrenders to a virtual solitude, imprisoned alone in a cold gray box in her mind, where months will seem like years and the demons of her psyche will be allowed free rein. But Jackal's history as a Hope has given her strengths and skills other prisoners lack - powers she will need to endure the tormenting loneliness; to survive, branded and despised, back in a world she doesn't know; to uncover the truth about her cruel betrayal; and to rediscover her life, her love, and her soul - in a strange place of shattered hopes and new beginnings, called 'Solitaire'.