Jakob has been skirting the rules for a long time, and now his illegal activities have cost him his corporate job.A shifty corpo loses his job and finds himself among a sect of techno-monks.Featuring a new protagonist in the universe of award-winning novel Into the BeanStalk!Letting go of his Tier Six lifestyle isn't easy - and in an attempt to hide from the state, he gets wrapped up with the Order of the Grand Construct. These highly tech-adept monks follow a hundred-year-old belief that the universe was built as a test - and that their AI-powered sect holds the key to guiding human souls to ascension. Jakob finds new comforts among the Order, but is quickly set upon a quest of a global scale. In events that tie directly with those in Into the BeanStalk, he must hide, hack, and fight his way through a socio-spiritual war that's been raging behind the scenes for years. This book runs parallel to the award-winning novel Into the BeanStalk! (Start with either book to enter the Hope Cyberpunk Universe!)