Adenia Online

There is no logout button. Max Mallory's day starts with a beating. It gets worse when his teacher kidnaps him and forces him into Adenia Online, a virtual reality game filled with knights, monsters and sword fights. At first, Max thinks he's simply trapped inside a game. Then he feels the pain. The monsters start behaving strangely. And when some creatures try crawling inside his mind, he begins to wonder whether Adenia is really a game at all. His only hope is Cassie, a girl from his year who punches first, asks questions later, and calls him an idiot often enough to make it seem like a hobby. Together, they search for a way home. But something is waiting for them inside Adenia. Something that knows them. Something powerful enough to threaten the real world. The deeper they go, the more they uncover about the game, and the more they begin to realise that they were never meant to be here by accident. There is a reason they can't log out. Because if they do... The real world will end.