WHEN THE SUN FLARES -- EARTH'S MANTLE HICCUPS -- SOCIETY SUFFERS

Rob Bell is financially screwed, although his wife doesn't know it yet. His only hope is to sell a house that he's constructed near to the beach. With one day to go to the sale, his, and everyone else's world comes crashing down. Severe movement in the Earth's tectonic plates caused by sun flares discharging positive charged particles into the mantle, go on to create a disaster that scientists failed to predict in its enormity. EMPs destroy the grid. Ash from volcanos darken the land. Floods divide the nation, with new mountain ranges created. The USA will never be the same again, changed forever.

Their home in a gated community is high in the hills of Santa Monica, overlooking the Pacific. They decide to stay put. Survival is the new game, money no longer an issue as death casts its shadow over the World and their community.

As their food supplies run low, and constantly under attack from outsiders, Brogan the head of their community security creates a mini fiefdom, with Rob's wife in charge of rations. Under attack, and falling foul of Brogan, and with death stalking him, Rob knows the only way out is for them to travel to his dad's bunker. Trouble is, io get there is a thousand-mile journey fraught with danger and his wife doesn't want to go. Fiercely loyal, he will have to decide if he should leave or to stay.

His life and others will depend on the outcome