"It's summer in Alaska and the light surrounding the shipping-container-turned-storage-shed where Liv Russo is being held prisoner is fuzzy and grey. Around her is thick forest and serrated mountains. In front of her, across a clearing, is a low-slung cabin with a single window that spills a wash of yellow light onto bare ground. Illuminated in that light is the father of her child, a man she once loved. A man who is now her jailor. Liv vows to do...

A pilot suffers a heart attack and his plane crashes into a nuclear power plant in Waketa, Minnesota, creating a catastrophic national emergency.

"Juni lives in a world without books. The Blight killed off all the trees, and since then, paper is worth more than just about anything else. Juni's parents were killed in an archeological dig when she was young, so now it's just her and her Grandpa Edgar, trying to survive. When she's not in school, Juni and her friends Doler and Quaze turn to plifting--scavenging in abandoned buildings for any scrap of paper they can find--to earn a little money....

Nick Chase and Jess Hardy are at a local animal rescue facility when the massive earthquake hits, followed by an even more dangerous tsunami--practically buried alive, the two kids and two teachers struggle to survive, unsure if anyone else from their town has escaped the disaster that has destroyed their homes.