Book 1

Chat

by Nan McCarthy

Published 6 November 1996
CHAT is the story of two people who "meet" online while cruising one of the world's largest online information services. Bev, a tough-minded book editor who has been logging online for several years, cautiously begins corresponding with Maximilian, a flamboyant and restless copywriter who strikes up a conversation with her after seeing her messages in the Writer's Forum. Bev and Max's relationship gradually becomes more intense as the story unfolds entirely through their email messages to one another.This book will appeal to Internet veterans who may have developed their own "virtual relationships," as well as to the millions of people who are fascinated by the goings-on in the world's new online community, but who haven't yet experienced it themselves. CHAT offers readers the irresistable opportunity to eavesdrop on Bev and Max's increasingly intriguing conversations as she becomes less inhibited and he grows more and more facinated by her.

Book 2

Connect

by Nan McCarthy

Published 1 January 1996
In the second novel of her acclaimed cybertrilogy, Nan McCarthy resumes the compelling story of Bev and Max, the two strangers who met online in CHAT. As you listen in to their private e-mail correspondence, their relationship continues to unfold and grow in intensity entirely through electronic messages. With their lives now unexpectedly - and irrevocably - intertwined, Bev and Max must contemplate the consequences of their deepening intimacy. Revealing themselves in what they choose to say - and leave unsaid - Bev and Max soon usher their romantic adventure into unexplored territory...

Book 3

Crash

by Nan McCarthy

Published 6 July 1998
The wild ride chronicled in CHAT AND CONNECT, the first two novels in Nan McCarthy's heralded cybertrilogy, comes to a jolting conclusion in CRASH. Listening in once again to the private e-mail conversations of Bev and Max, two strangers who met onlinen - and whose relationship has grown ever more intense and complex than they ever imagined. Laced with humour and provocative confessions, their impassioned exchanges seem to be leading them to the brink of the inevitable...