Children of the Apocalypse: The House of Shadows

"The first meteor hit the Earth's surface at 1:15 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. Jake Evans was snoozing in bed, biding time until the ever-annoying wake-up call protruded from his alarm clock and summoned him to the offices of Tech Co., one of the nation's most successful developers of electronic games.

With the sudden tremor of his apartment, he leapt from his mattress onto the wavering wooden floor--the dark brown mop of hair plopped messily upon his head flying in all directions. The freezing planks sent an icy shiver up his legs, and his six-foot body shook as he hurriedly crossed his arms for warmth. 

'What was that?' he muttered to himself, his face still shrouded in a sleepy daze. A few seconds later, another quake sent him falling helplessly to the ground. He clambered over to the small bedroom window on the right side of his bed and pulled back the darkly trimmed curtains. A cloud of thick, black smoke was slowly encompassing the night lit spectacle known as New York City--a throng of panicked civilians frantically attempting to outrun it. Through the haze of the sooty mist, Jake could make out small, orange-tipped flames coming from the base of a nearby building." 

When the North American continent mysteriously falls under attack by pelting meteors, New York gaming designer Jake Evans is plucked from obscurity and rushed to a covert hideout dubbed the Base. There, he discovers the secrets behind the shooting rocks and the circumstances that are instigating them. In order to stop the lurid assault on his home turf, he soon finds he must embark on a quest into a virtual world laden with time-consuming obstacles. If he fails to conquer them within the allotted amount of time, the continent's population is doomed for certain extinction. Join Jake as he takes on his greatest gaming challenge yet and struggles to save the continent of North America from a disastrous ending.