The year is 2102, three months have passed since the largest terrorist attack in human history imprisoned two billion people inside of the VRMMORPG Venture Online. It's been six weeks since the climactic ending of the first volume of Divided Worlds, Our World's Death, and little progress has been made by either Maxwell Cross and his friends or George Fisher and his partner. Max is drowning the despair of his loss in drink, all but blinded to the efforts of his friends to help him cope. George is buried deep in documents, trying to hunt down the man responsible for the attack as well as deal with the burdens placed on his partner's mental health. Will Maxwell be able to overcome his emotional difficulties to help his friends escape? Will George be able to find the man responsible for everything? Find out in Our World's Despair, the second volume of Divided Worlds.