The System found them for a reason.

Tristan Thatcher spent four years as a number. Fighter 41, trapped in an underground facility where children are forced to fight for the entertainment of people who will never know their names. When a mysterious interface appears in his vision and a door opens in the dark, he has four minutes to decide whether to trust it.

He takes the chance.

Three teenagers. Three abilities. One enemy they didn't know existed.

In the sprawling, polluted megaplexes of a world controlled by a single global government, the Accord's two hundred elite Architect families own everything — the air, the food, the chips implanted in every citizen at birth. Surveillance is total. Resistance is impossible.

Or it was.

Someone has been watching from the shadows for eleven years, building a System that reaches beyond the Accord's architecture into something older and stranger. Something that designated three specific teenagers — a boy forged in violence, a ghost who doesn't exist in any record, a girl who can feel everything you're hiding — before she ever found them.

Tristan receives the Absolver class. His endurance becomes a weapon.

Kat, thirteen years old and unchipped, receives the Phantom class. She can disappear from every system that looks for her — including ones that shouldn't be able to find her at all.

Beau has been performing for powerful people since she was nine years old. The Echo class gives her what she was always doing but better — the ability to feel what people feel, know what they're hiding, and send it back.

Their targets wear human faces.

What lives inside them is something else entirely.

GLITCH: AWAKEN is a dark LitRPG cyberpunk novel featuring character progression, a deep mythology, and three protagonists worth following into hell.

For fans of Red Rising, the Persona series, and progression fantasy with real stakes.

Book One of the GLITCH series.