1. Beginnings

When 16- year-old Jaren Christian runs away from home, she is prepared for the nano-drugs, prostitution and net running-and she's okay with it. She is sick of the blissful New Utopian planet she was raised on, and just wants to live in a real world. Her new bio-ware in place, she leaves home on her shuttle, bound for the Night City to find her ex-stepbrother. But when she ends up on the run, with the secrets of an inter-galactic mega-corporation locked in her head, no way to hack them out, and the son of a powerful crime lord bent on making her his property, Jaren quickly discovers what reality really means.