The entire nation is threatened. When dreaded earthquakes and rare late-season storms attack both coasts of North America, lives everywhere are in jeopardy. In the heart of the country, in a quiet neighborhood in Colorado, people would die but for the efforts of one man. And through it all, though their lives are in danger, the neighbors work together, trying to salvage what they can from the results of the storms, the evils of criminal attacks, and a justice system that might destroy a war hero's family.