Christopher Rogers

Virtual Eternity Christopher Rogers

Jonathan Hannah and Maureen Kelly are two twenty-somethings struggling with faith, modern sexual temptations, and the new video game culture they're helping to drag down. Maureen is an uncertain cradle Catholic. Jonathan is an atheist. Jonathan's journey begins after he beds a high school senior, then a divine remorse he cannot recognize plagues him. At his new career near Miami, Jonathan falls in love with a gorgeous executive, Lana Schon. Lana controls his access to Magic Theater, the cutting-edge networked virtual reality games that Jonathan tests and markets. When a lover aborts his baby, Jonathan starts searching for eternal life. He tries to find it through Lana, through more women, through art, and through a sinister mentor he ultimately must defy. Maureen, a tiny, unattractive secretary, is engaged to a domineering ogre who wants to own her by taking her virginity. She rushes to her supportive best friend, but the two women's relationship grows physical. Maureen eventually rediscovers the wisdom of Christ's Church, from an unlikely source. Virtual Eternity combines religious journeys, vivid characters, passion and love, and technological conspiracy, into the story of a man and woman who are transformed. Their story is a search for the Trinity.