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In an alternate reality, war didn't stop in 1918. With the United States divided, famine and disease run rampant, and disease run rampant, and the frequent air raids on the coasts means that people must make reprehensible decisions. Breaking off the coast, some of these people burrowed deep into the Earth, building makeshift homes out of previous towering structures. Steadily over time, a greater evil would come into unopposed power - The Corporation. A privately owned enterprise which valued secrecy above all. After a bitter land dispute, The Corporation decided to privately buy the West Coast from the United States. Elena Warren's world begins to implode when her life sentence is mysteriously dropped. Following Elena's trial, Elena finds herself lost in the glamour of the Upper Rink. Born into the Slums of a lower-class crystal mining district, Elena has always been considered a troublemaker for The Corporation. Trapped within the ruins of yesteryear's war, she finds no comfort in the suffocating regimes that litter the ruins of sunken California. Will Elena ever find a way out?
The Blue Hour is an atmospheric dystopian novel following the lives of Elena's friends and family as they venture into colliding worlds.