America is not prepared for a major catastrophe. One is coming. It maybe a natural disaster, like the setting of this novel. It maybe from a terrorist attack. In whatever form it comes. Millions will die from ignorance. Mary Kenton lives through the eruption of the Yellowstone volcano. She experiences neighborhood warfare, rape, the lost of her husband, and the hardships of major terrorist attacks on a weaken population. Luckily, the survival group she belongs to keeps her alive. Humanity sinks to its lowest level in an America turned into a kill-or-be-killed state. This novel describes what will happen when the carnage begins. The question isn't if. The question is when