Head Hoppers Series

What if everyone was trying to kill the person you love most?   It's a gaming competition with millions of dollars as prizes. The objective: Reach character level thirty. The hitch: The avatars have free will while the players sleep.   Mithabel enters the action as an Elf Tank avatar, joining party MAD. In the first two game days, the companions battle hundreds of relentless mooks, dozens of horrific mind-altering monsters, several respawning Bosses, and a couple crafty competing parties, for starters. Thank the Goddess for the Priestess Dylan and her healing spells. Mithabel can't help but have a crush. Or is she in love?   Infrequent loot drops make upgrading equipment and spells nearly impossible. Skills only advance with class level. When the system places a huge target on Priestess Dylan, party MAD must expand their abilities in unconventional ways to protect Mithabel's best friend against the horde.

Previously published as Undone: A GameLit Novel by MK Eidson & Emila H Thicke. This is the 2nd edition.   Not everyone wants to be Chosen. Morrow the Punk Lightning Wizard, an avatar living a quiet life in Khertaan with his Angel wife and Frogkin daughter, is happy not to be among those Chosen as PCs for players from another world. His is a tight-knit family, and he wants to keep it that way. The alien players, however, won't leave Morrow and his family alone. Nick McKenzie and his Earth family need Morrow's family as their PC avatars, or so claims ODYSSEY, a collective of telepathic, time-traveling, reality-hopping nanobots. While not easily persuaded, Morrow agrees to visit Earth—as a spirit hosted in Nick's body—to better understand why it's so necessary for Nick and his family to have avatars in Khertaan. But when sinister forces work to prevent Morrow's return home, will he have what it takes to fight his way back and save his family from a fate worse than death? Based on reader feedback, Undone—volume 2 of the Head Hoppers series—has been revised and rewritten with new chapters and a new perspective, while retaining necessary material from the first edition.

Being a lowly NPC in what her companions perceive as little more than a video game world, Charli the teenage Cowgirl Guide isn't appreciated as much as she deserves. When she takes temporary leave of party MAD to further her own agenda, she doesn't realize how strange her adventure is about to become. When she awakens on another world, she's determined to get back to her own... if she can only convince her new traveling companion to help her make it happen. Continuing the stories of characters from the first two volumes, this third installment of the Head Hoppers series is a science fiction / fantasy GameLit / LitRPG story of level advancement with an ensemble cast, featuring nanobots, a dungeon quest, a desert trek, planetary destruction, characters cheating the System, and one crazy sex scene redefining cybersex. Intended for a mature audience.

When one is working to save the world, is any price too high? Traveling with party MAD to Minook, Yuni the Priestess of War falls hard for Dylan, MAD's Priestess of Light. When Yuni is offered a special quest without being told its fulfillment requirements, the lure of a couple hundred million XP is too much to resist. Can she fulfill the quest without revealing it to anyone? And if she does fulfill it, can she live with the consequences—even at the cost of losing the heart of the woman she's falling for? Book four of the Head Hoppers series is a science fiction / fantasy GameLit / LitRPG story with an ensemble cast of high-powered characters continually cheating the System in an attempt to quickly earn the billion-plus XPs needed to reach that all-important level thirty. Meanwhile, evil forces outside Khertaan continue raining down destruction on the rest of the multiverse. If the avatars are to save the multiverse, they'll need to hurry....

Sometimes, quick thinking can mean the difference between life and death. Other times, it can mean the difference between life and the total annihilation of all existence. After respawning in Khertaan, Slithy the Frogkin Mentalist and Martial Artist gains a special quest to boost her to level thirty, an achievement necessary for her to be an effective fighter in the war against Seth the Destroyer on Earth. She's on her way to fulfill the quest when her support AI announces an emergency System update that will throw Slithy out of Khertaan indefinitely. With not even an estimated time for update completion, it's possible Slithy and avatars across Khertaan will never reach that all important level thirty. Can she find a way to fulfill her special quest... in time to make a difference? The fifth and final installment in the Head Hoppers series, Dread Naughts brings to a close the story of the war waged by Seth the Destroyer and his high-powered hordes against Earth, Khertaan, Destin, and other worlds in alternate timelines.