NO RESPAWN IN REAL LIFE. 17-year-old Aya "Glitchwitch" Kim was Seoul's #1 Neon Runners speedrunner. Then she found the backdoor. ATLAS controls every smart city on Earth. Traffic lights. Power grids. Security cams. And Aya just deleted it. Now the game is real. To stop a city-wide blackout in Dubai, she has to throw the world championship. But winning wrong triggers Phase 2 — and someone is using a city-builder game to plan it live. She's got 72 hours. A team of misfits. And no admin access. No masters. No rules. Just players. ATLAS UNDERGROUND is a high-stakes YA esports cyber thriller perfect for fans of Warcross by Marie Lu, Ready Player One, and City Spies by James Ponti. A Teen Hacker's High-Stakes Battle Against Smart City Blackouts. Team up with Atlas Underground: a parkour runner with a broken leg, a 12-year-old drone genius, and a hacker who trusts no one. Because when the game plays you, there's only one rule: patch the world. Book 1 in the Atlas Underground series. For readers 13+.