Lee is an up-and-coming designer of seductive love dolls for Zendyne Corporation, until the day his sexiest product yet goes murderously wrong. Sent to the crime scene to defuse a delicate situation, Lee finds that the rogue doll has been infiltrated by a mysterious, self-aware entity called Lilith who can't seem to make her mind up whether she's a silky-smooth seductress or a state-of-the-art assassination system.

Within hours, Lee's encounter with Lilith has escalated into a life-or-death race with her creators, the shadowy and relentless Elect, and ultimately into a battle for the very stuff of his humanity — a battle in which his best hope of salvation turns out not to be human at all.

Ebook/web-based readers: if you don't like DRM (let's face it, cyberpunk readers usually don't) then you can get it from Smashwords priced at whatever you want to pay, in numerous DRM-free formats including Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader, Epub (Stanza and others), Palm, HTML and plain text. Or you can get it in Microsoft .lit or Secure Adobe format from Fictionwise for about 5 bucks and with DRM (just mentioning that for balance :-)

Paperback: Better than Real is published in paperback by Velluminous Press, see cover art and links below.