The Future of Sex continues in this thrilling third installment … What's inside Chloe Shaw could change the world … IF, that is, O can find those secrets before Chloe herself realizes they exist.Chloe's latest assignments with O have been so simple as to seem retro: basic playacting, tab-and-slot sex, an over-the-top client who wants her to be a parody of someone she's not -- even a chance encounter with a handsome boy she's uncharacteristically drawn to. But what Chloe doesn't realize is that what she's taken as mundane happenings are actually O's attempts to commoditize her -- to break her into the ones and zeros that explain her innate ability to redefine pleasure and profit.

But while O tries to suss the enigma buried within their sexual prodigy, Chloe stumbles onto an echo inside an archive predating the Crossbrace network -- an ancient footprint proving that culture's evolution, under O's thumb, has been far from natural. It seems the legendary Six are far more powerful than anyone in the NAU has ever imagined … and have been sowing their plans for decades, waiting for just the right girl to connect just the right dots and usher in a new age.

Welcome to the Future of Sex.In the hyperconnected and artificial-intelligence-enhanced future, sex is like a cyberpunk video game: a realm where no desire is left unexplored, and even the unimaginable is possible.In the year 2063, the civilized world exists only within the North American Union, walled off by a defensive shell called the Lattice, protected from the barbarian East and rising sea levels while life goes on in a hyper-stimulated dystopia.

Life inside the NAU is overseen by the Crossbrace network, soon to be supplanted by the next-gen AI of an arriving entity called "The Beam." And sex -- which hosts a bevy of technological wonders within its toolset (nanobots, bodily enhancements, computer-simulated immersive porn) has been turned into a commodity, diverted away from humanity and toward profit.

The monolithic O corporation has mainstreamed sexuality through social engineering and political manipulation -- not in order to legitimize it, but to advance its own market share. O is in search of the elite to please the NAU's wealthiest and most demanding men and women -- true to its mission to strive toward "the future of sex."

Among those recruits is Chloe Shaw: new, green, and downright inexperienced. But as it turns out, Chloe has a gift that even far-seeing O doesn't suspect. She's a strong female lead and a prodigy for sure … but will her abilities prove to be more than even O can control?

The Future of Sex takes place within the world of The Beam, a groundbreaking sci-fi serial by Sean Platt and Johnny B. Truant. This cyberpunk trip down the rabbit hole straddles the line as a hybrid science fiction / erotica series, and as such contains explicit sex scenes.