Versailles - Yannick Hill

Welcome to Versailles, an ocean-frontmega-mansion, 100 rooms of technologically breathtaking real estate,tailor-made for Casey Baer, founder and CEO of the internet's pre-eminentsocial network. He's the closest thing the online generation has to royalty,and this is his palace.

But all is not well in this concrete shellof one man's American Dream. His wife, Synthea, once the world's foremostindustrial designer, roams the corridors in a drugged dream state. His son,River, locks himself away in his room, living vicariously through dozens ofvirtual pseudonyms. And Missy, his daughter, has just deleted her onlineprofile and driven away through the gates, never to return.

As River tries to track his sister down, helights upon Deep Sky. Is it a cult? And if so, what do they want with Missy? Isshe running away from home or toward a darker mystery? And why? Is it somethingCasey did?

Versaillesis a fable for the digital age. In an era ofperpetual connectivity and mass surveillance, the novel explores our dual needto be witnessed and to be alone.