In a posthuman virtual world sealed off from the ruins of Earth, the
idyll is shattered by an arachnid invasion.
Designed in imitation of a harbor town in southern Europe, the Realm of
Summer is just one of the zones within the virtual resort known as the
Costa del Número. It has been more than a thousand years since human
guests stopped coming to the Realm, leaving the AIs alone in their
endless summer. But now all that has come to a sudden end, as an army of
mysterious Spiders begin reducing the town to nothing. As night falls,
the few remaining AIs prepare for their final, hopeless battle... War
between the virtual and the real begins in book one of the Angel of the
Ruins series.