Interim

By the end of the 21st century, TranSend Universal has developed a technology making instantaneous travel between any two locations an everyday reality. During the journey, the traveler's mind is stored in an artificial world known as Interim in which the traveler can experience, or be, anything. But there's a problem in Interim. Not everyone is returning. At least not alive. Evan Drake and Danielle Akins are called in to investigate. What they discover is beyond anything they could have imagined. Conrad Blake, head of TranSend and its vast corporate empire, is intent upon seeing that information die, along with both of them. When Evan finds himself trapped on a distant planet unable to contact Danielle, his only way home is Interim. But Conrad is just waiting for him to enter Interim, so that he can send his assassins. What's worse, there's something inside Interim that wants Evan dead. Something evil. Evan's only hope for survival is a mysterious woman who claims to be from his past.