title: Exit to Reality: A Novel
author:  Edith Forbes 
description: When Euclid (real name Lydian) ventures onto the Random Queries and Idle Speculation bulletin board she meets Proteus (real name Merle), a self-described misfit who admits to unemployment. Lydian is wary of this impossibility. After all, it is the 29th century and such oddities have been eliminated. But curiosity and a desire to jettison her culturally induced techno-stupor lead Lydian to rendezvous with Merle, igniting an unlikely meeting of the minds - and bodies. Lydian and Merle's careening love affair takes them from Paris to Jamaica, from the wrong side of the law to the far side of late-millennium family values, and ultimately, to a face-off between technology and civilization that spurs Lydian to question - and then dismantle - the very essence of human existence.
zlib_text: **Alpha Billionaire**
  
   **Part I**
  
   **Helen Cooper**
  
    
  
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  Copyright © 2014 by Helen Cooper
  
    
  
   **TABLE OF CONTENTS**
  
   _Prologue_
  
   _Chapter 1_
  
   _Chapter 2_
  
   _Chapter 3_
  
   _Chapter 4_
  
   _Chapter 5_
  
   _Chapter 6_
  
   _Note from the author_
  
    
  
   **Prologue**
  
  If this were the last second of the last minute of the last hour of the day,
  all I would want is to see your face. All I would need is to feel your touch.
  All I would crave was one smile from your lips. If this were 