When Anja takes a trip in front of her friends, something strange happens: 'Stop focusing on the blackout,' she said, 'The buzz is the whole point. It's the latest drug - a VR drug - no side effects, no addiction, no problem. Anja - one of the Cherry Dogs - found something incredible. The djinni lets them access everything - from low level hacking to the most realistic VR games. They connect to the net via a djinni - a computer with direct access to their brain. The Cherry Dogs aren't the best but they are moving up the ranks fast. Your parents can't tell you to get off the computer if the computer is in your head Play Crazy! Marisa and her best friends are the Cherry Dogs - an all-girl group of virtual reality gamers mostly based in Mirador, a suburb of LA. But in this city, when something sounds too good to be true, it usually is, and Mari and her friends soon find themselves in the middle of a conspiracy that is much bigger than they ever suspected. And it’s Anja who first gets her hands on Bluescreen-a virtual drug that plugs right into a person’s djinni and delivers a massive, non-chemical, completely safe high. She might spend her days in Mirador, the small, vibrant LA neighborhood where her family owns a restaurant, but she lives on the net-going to school, playing games, hanging out, or doing things of more questionable legality with her friends Sahara and Anja. In a world where virtually everyone is online twenty-four hours a day, this connection is like oxygen-and a world like that presents plenty of opportunities for someone who knows how to manipulate it.

One of those connections is a djinni-a smart device implanted right in a person’s head. Los Angeles in 2050 is a city of open doors, as long as you have the right connections.

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