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Things seem to be on the up for builder Mark Poynter. He's got himself a nice little earner taking care of the sizeable property portfolio built up from the career earnings of former Premier League bad-boy and local celebrity, Danny Kidd. But when Danny puts an interested party's nose out of joint by using his star status to gazump them on a development site - the derelict Admiral Guthrie pub - things turn ugly, leaving Mark to deal with the consequences.

A landmark feat of innovation is about to change the American West forever. With electric cables stretching from the Colorado River to Gallup, New Mexico, a new telegraph system will connect the settlers of the Arizona Territory to the rest of the country — a dream come true for rancher Chet Byrnes and his family. But laying 400 miles of steel wire can be a deadly task. Chet has to face off with hired henchmen who would kill to sabotage the project. Chet’s nephew JD has his hands full with cutthroat rustlers on the Mexican border.

Sean Virgil is a complete loser. He's unemployed, overweight and practically penniless. The only escape from his morose life is the solace he finds while playing video games. When he moves out of the real world and in to the virtual world, he can be handsome and powerful, a hero or a villain; anyone else other than the loser that he really is. When real life sucks and the virtual world is the only escape, the lines can become blurred on what reality is. Can a video game change the concepts of reality and fiction?