Welcome to HIVE, the world’s most popular virtual reality game! Everyone’s addicted to HIVE—kids, parents, and even teachers. Everyone, that is, except for Kara Tilden, who believes the game had something to do with her mom’s disappearance. And with a new update about to launch, everyone around Kara is even more obsessed with it, including her friends and boyfriend, Gus.

But when the upgrade finally hits, a glitch in the system traps everyone inside HIVE—and there’s no way out. Now it’s up to Kara and her friends to beat HIVE at its own game. To do so, they’ll have to go deeper into the game than ever before. There they’ll discover the uneasy truth behind HIVE—a truth that may very well lead Kara to her mother.…