CAN A GAME BE MORE REAL—AND MORE DANGEROUS—THAN REALTY? KEVIN FIKKAN was a reckless computer game testrunner whose history was a series of betrayals. Until he met Janny. JANNY LAIAS was a game designer determined to create a fantasy world more realistic than ever before—and to rule over it as a god. But now Janny's world has a treacherous programming bug that can only be solved by tackling the game without a safety net—by entering a demon infested desert called... THE TANGLED LANDS Kevin and Janny risk their sanity as they try to complete the game. For he demons they must battle together in the Tangled Lands are his faults—and her nightmares.