The earth is shifting.
The Ring of Fire is awake.
Beneath paradise, a global cataclysm looms.
And someone is hiding the truth.

After the catastrophic fury of Mount St. Helens and the agonizing eruption of Mount Fuji, Dr. Duke Mercer and his family find themselves regrouping in new environs. Duke and the CVO refugees have a new, desperate mandate to monitor the Pacific Rim's most volatile volcanic systems, from the enigmatic Axial Seamount to the looming titans off Indonesia.

But the Earth's fiery heart has a new, terrifying plan.

Duke's brilliant daughter, Sloan, is handpicked to join elite cadre of volcanologists tasked with averting global disaster. Her new assignment plunges her into the heart of the Pacific—Hawaii's volcanic islands—where she's partnered with the handsome, enigmatic seismologist Dr. Kane Barfield. Kane carries a secret, a chilling truth that could not only obliterate Hawaii but plunge the entire planet into an extinction-level event.

As Sloan and the new VDAP team uncover alarming evidence—Mauna Loa and Kilauea's massive magma chambers are connected, charging, and ready to erupt—a secretive experimental deep-earth drilling operation for volcanic gold threatens to derail their desperate race against time. They must convince a skeptical world of the unprecedented VEI potential of a joint eruption while finding a way to shield the Hawaiian people from an impending catastrophe.

Kane's terrifying secret, the very reason he was strategically deployed to the idyllic Hawaiian Islands, may hold the singular key to survival. However, for humanity to endure, he must reveal the truth—a truth more devastating than the inferno brewing beneath the Pacific.

This modern-day, fact-based novel will have you whispering just one more chapter until the end.