At first glance, Clea lives in a recognisable present: school, social media, friendships, rumours, screens and choices that seem small until they start to have real consequences. But beneath that surface lies another layer: a space of data, signals, avatars and invisible threats where everything leaves a trace.
In the Digital Realm, information can protect, reveal the truth… or become a weapon. Every trace counts. Every choice matters. And not everyone hiding behind a screen is human.
Clea
Clea is a brilliant, intuitive and stubborn young woman with a special gift for understanding technology as if she could hear what happens behind the screen.
She is not looking to be a heroine. Nor does she want to get into trouble. But when she discovers that someone is using the digital world to cause harm, she finds it hard to look the other way.
Her greatest strength lies not only in what she knows how to do, but in how she chooses to use it: with curiosity, courage and an ethic that will be tested more than once.
RAM
RAM is a mysterious artificial intelligence, too aware to be just a program and too impulsive to limit itself to watching.
RAM appears in Clea’s path as ally, guide and enigma. RAM knows the Digital Realm better than anyone, but understanding humans is not always so simple.
Behind its logic, its precise answers and its strange way of interpreting the world, RAM hides a past connected to the deepest secrets of the Digital Realm.
BitGuard
BitGuard is a network of young ethical hackers who collaborate from different places around the world. They are not a group of superheroes, nor an official organisation, nor a makeshift gang: they are brilliant minds connected by the same idea.
Technology should not serve to destroy lives, but to protect them.
Each member brings a different way of looking at the problem: analysis, infiltration, networks, defence, intuition and strategy. Together, they form a line of defence against threats that often no one else can see.
Julia
Julia has always been popular, self-assured and apparently surrounded by people. But in Operation Zero Bullying something begins to change.
Her story shows one of the harshest faces of the digital world: when rumours, mockery and anonymous profiles become constant pressure, invisible to many and devastating for those who suffer it.
For Clea, helping Julia will be much more than solving a technical problem. It will mean discovering how far the damage can go when no one dares to stop it in time.
A universe in expansion
Operation Zero Bullying is the first novel of Clea: The Ethical Hacker and the gateway to a saga where mystery, technology and digital responsibility intersect with ever greater threats.
Level 5, the free prequel, tells the story of Clea and RAM’s first encounter and reveals how it all began.
Because in the Digital Realm, everything leaves a trace.