Dark Application: ONE, the first book of The Dark Application Series, was written with social media, mobile application, and interactive media users in mind. The series’ concept was initially developed to be presented as a television series. During the creative process, the decision was made to release the first episodes of the series in electronic format. We chose to release a Kindle version prior to presenting the concept to the networks in order to solicit reader feedback, character refinements, and plot suggestions.
This book has all the elements of a traditional fiction piece; it’s suspenseful, full of laughs yet mysterious, includes the college party of the year, a few laws are broken and tough agents do a little cloak and dagger to find the culprit, some people die a horrific death and the financially struggling nerdy student comes into money and gets the girl of his dreams. The primary thing that sets this book, and series, apart from traditional books is that each of the aforementioned pieces of the book are driven by, or related to, social media, mobile applications or virtual interaction, and the series continuation is tied to the viral aspects of those drivers.
In Dark Application: ONE, Luke Jeffers is a student at Brafferton Community College in Fort Christanna, Virginia. Like any other college guy, he dreams about Amy, his grade-school crush, and finds time to party on the weekends while struggling to make his meager budget pay his bills. But unlike anyone else, Luke has discovered the secret Department of Defense Application for Remote Kinetics that unlocks a whirlwind of shocking events, and changes Luke’s life direction forever.
While working as an intern at a Computer Information Systems research facility, Luke secretly downloads games from the main server onto his smart phone. Unbeknownst to him, Dark Application is also installed on his phone. And once Dark Application is installed on a phone, it can never be removed. Suddenly Luke’s life takes on utterly unpredicted changes; he passes his first Chemistry exam, he mysteriously acquires a large sum of money, and he finally gets the girl of his dreams go out with him on Valentine’s Day.
Slowly the application sucks him in, and he becomes addicted and unable to put it down. But lurking just around the corner are horrific secrets that land Luke in a world of hurt, and he becomes entangled in a web of murder, lies, and criminal activities that shock the town and lead to his ultimate destruction. Dark Application: One is the technological thriller of the iPhone era that will lead into the next book of the series in The Dark Application Series.
