Twenty-five years ago a nuclear bomb detonated in Washington D.C. and forever changed the lives of every American citizen. An all-volunteer military became lost to the past; mandatory defense and tactics training is the new reality. To eighteen-year-old Jessica "Jess" Harden, the training is little more than a hurdle that stands in her path to a history degree from Princeton. She doesn't share the enthusiasm of her peers who look forward to the day they can experience the simulated battlefields of the most advanced video game in the world. But the virtual world is not without its own sordid history. Jess soon becomes part of a mystery twenty-five years in the making, a puzzle that will make her question everything and everyone. She just has to survive long enough to drop the final piece. Spectral Relapse is the sequel to Walking Ghost Phase.