Spirits in the Wires

When a popular, literature-related research web site called the Wordwood crashes, everyone visiting the site including popular author Christy Riddell's girlfriend, Saskia Madding suddenly vanishes. Now her friends must somehow find her before it's too late.
It all starts when Aaran Goldstein, the mean-spirited book editor for The Daily Journal, has his fragile ego bruised by Christiana Tree, Riddell's mysterious, independent shadow-self made up of all the parts of his personality that he cast out when he was a child. To get back at the strange woman who slighted him, Goldstein blackmails a hacker to send a virus to one of Christiana's favorite web sites. Little does Goldstein know the web site is actually a powerful sentient spirit; and when the virus is downloaded, a bizarre chain of events causes hundreds of people to be sucked into the otherworld of the Internet.