Confluence of April — Erik Schubach

After the polar ice caps melt in the Thaw, the Corporations take control of the flooded zones and create virtual utopias over the great cities of the past that rest below the waves.In his death, the head of the Kashima mega-corporation, launched Quantum Flux bombs over the headquarters of the other competing corporations using, quite literally, a deadman's switch. This brought down all the modern technology in the world, including the Frame, in an event now known as FrameFall.Five years later, the world is still struggling to reclaim some of the technology that was so ubiquitous in their world, and restore some sense of order.April and her family, while pursuing a corporate bail jumper fugitive from the Battle of New Adelaide, uncover a conspiracy to seize control of the new, broken world.The only thing standing in the way, is a confluence of April.