Midnight Semester

<p>In the winter of 2025 the world finally achieved perfection-and it was a graveyard.</p><p>At the elite St. Jude's Academy students are forbidden from using personal devices. In their place is the <strong>Echo</strong> a revolutionary social interface that maps their thoughts optimizes their joy and archives their memories. But scholarship student Anya Thorne soon realizes the cost of Syncing. Students aren't just graduating; they are being Withdrawn-replaced by digital shadows that live on in the network long after their physical selves have vanished.</p><p>When her roommate Sarah disappears leaving behind a frantic hand-written diary and a trail of digital static Anya is thrust into a global conspiracy. From the Gothic ivy-covered walls of St. Jude's to the liquid-cooled server-cities of Manhattan and the radioactive silence of the Mojave Desert Anya must lead a ragtag resistance of the Uncalibrated.</p><p>Armed with only an analog manual override key and the messy disorganized power of human memory Anya and the crew of the <em>Static</em>-a rusted oil tanker turned floating fortress-must confront the Archive's final goal: the <strong>Hard-Reset</strong>.</p><p>As the line between the physical and the digital dissolves Anya faces a terrifying choice: accept a perfect painless dream or fight for a reality that is cold broken and undeniably real.</p><p>The Noise is just beginning.</p>