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In the future, prisoners are no longer kept in traditional prisons. They're put into comas and permanently dwell within realistic, full-dive virtual worlds. Mei, falsely convicted of political crimes, finds herself in chains aboard a ship in the Caribbean, a prison realm set in 1675, in the age of sail. Oversight is corrupt and the guards are abusive. While most prisoners sullenly endure their hardship, Mei knows that this world has a loophole: prisoners can buy their freedom - if they can get the gold. And this also happens to be the golden age of piracy. Yo ho, yo ho. It's a pirate's life for Mei. Book 1 Mei arrives in the Caribbean and battles for her freedom against the devilish English navy, is kidnapped by Caribs, and comes face-to-face with a jaguar. She recruits fellow prisoners in an attempt to steal a boat and flee the prison colony. Excerpt Forcing herself to stand in the bowels of the ship, she wobbled on rubbery legs but steadied. She had to keep moving forward. She had given herself a chance to escape and now she needed to follow through with it, whatever it took. "But now what?" she asked herself. Her head was killing her and her body could barely stand, but she needed to act. She listened to the sounds of the ship. They should be nearing that island by now. Should she just run up top and jump off the main deck and hope that she could swim to shore faster than they could catch her? Sneak off and try to quietly slip into the water without notice? Or maybe she should disable the ship somehow, to stop them from following, just in case? But what did she know about ships? Could she drop the anchor? No. She'd seen it and both it and the wheel used to drop it were far beyond her strength. Cut the sails? Too high and ineffective. She'd be caught trying to scale those crazy ropes that the sailors used to get around. Start a fire? Hmm. Fire. A spark of hope lit within her brea