... in which a young woman is enlisted to save the US President's daughter, who is trapped in a virtual world populated by Nazis, terrorists, and various villains from world history.
The Demi-Monde: Winter is the first book in a series involving a virtual reality (the Demi-Monde), set in 2018. This virtual world was created to simulate urban warfare scenarios for US soldiers in training, and the programmers populated the world with "dupes", virtual duplicates of real-life people, famous and otherwise. The computer world's technology is set to be comparable to the technology available in Victorian times. The most prominent people populating the Demi-Monde are some the worst people to ever live, including Reinhard Heydrich (one of Hitler's right-hand men), Lavrentii Beria (Stalin's chief of police), Tomas de Torquemada (a prominent figure in the Catholic Church's Spanish Inquisition), and plenty of others. The catch? The people in the Demi-Monde don't know that they're not real; all they know is that living in the Demi-Monde is hell. Unfortunately for the real-life humans who are spending time in this computer simulation, if you die in the computer, then you die in real life. Somehow, the US President's daughter Norma has been lured into the Demi-Monde, and is being held captive by Heydrich and his lackeys. The US Army recruits a young woman, Ella Thomas, to infiltrate the Demi-Monde and bring Norma out safely. However, the rulers of the Demi-Monde have a bigger plan for Norma and all of the residents of the computer world.
