High on a mesa in the mountains of New Mexico, a small town hides a dreadful secret. One morning very soon, there will be an accident that triggers a terrible chain reaction and the Earth will be wiped out. James Oberhelm, a reporter at Los Alamos National Laboratory, already sees the devastation. He believes he can prevent an apocalypse, but first James must escape the devices of a sensuous young blood tech, a lecherous old hippie, a predator in a waking nightmare and a forsaken adobe house in the Sangre de Cristo mountains with a dark history.