Winter

<p>Charlie would like to believe one steers one's own fate but things are getting out of hand. Her engagement is broken her health is questionable and she has a wrist cuff full of intrusive medical AIs trying to report on her. Desperate to reverse her fortunes she buys an apparent dream house but things are not as they seem. She hears noises: a phone ringing that is not her own a persistent scratching in the walls footsteps in the night. And is someone signaling her from the empty stone building on the neighboring hill?</p><p></p><p>Locals soon reveal what she wished she had known before. For starters she now lives on the most haunted road in town. More disturbing still an urban legend tells of an AI whose avatar wanders that long street and draws near to those about to die. </p><p></p><p>Is fate real? Is she on a collision course with it? If Charlie is to keep her sanity she must determine the cause of the phenomena and learn exactly what is at stake-and for whom.</p><p></p><p></p>