What if you made the worst mistake of your life and got the chance to
fix it? Only you made it so much worse? From the incomparable crafter of
nine cross-genre works of fiction, Lisa deNikolits expands her horizons
to pen a grab-you-by-the-throat, feminist speculative-fiction thriller
in the style of Groundhog Day meets The Matrix.
The perfect father kills his family on Christmas Eve, and tries to undo
his actions by jumping back in time. The result is murder and mayhem in
dystopia. Set in 2055, the world is run by robots and virtual data,
while the weather is controlled by satellite dishes. Arts and culture
are no more than distant memories. People are angry, placated by
prescribed visits to rage rooms to vent their boredom, fury, and
discontent. Beneath the sunny skies and behind the garbage-free suburban
McMansions live deeply disturbed, materialistic families.
During his time travels and increasingly desperate attempts to reserve
his colossal mistake, Sharps Barkley meets the leader of the Eden
Collective, a feminist army determined tosave the Earth by removing all
artificial intelligence and letting the Earth restore itself--if
necessary, at the expense of mankind. The Eden Collective uses data
gathered from the rage rooms to analyze and predict the potential and
actions needed for the Earth to reset andthey need to prove that time
travel is an effective tool. If Sharps can go back and save his
children, then there is hope for the future. Sharps is the 49th
experiment and his success is pivotal. Can love prevail over anger?
The Rage Room has a multi-layered plot that is fueled by a
feminist-driven courage to take charge and save the world as it exposes
the effects of an increasingly digital age on our lives and, ultimately,
our humanity.
