Many visitors to Yellowstone National Park don’t realize that the boiling hot springs and spraying geysers are caused by an underlying supervolcano, so large that the caldera can only be seen by plane or satellite. And by some scientific measurements, it could be overdue for an eruption.For Alex, being left alone for the weekend means having the freedom to play computer games and hang out with his friends without hassle from his mother. Then the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts, plunging his hometown into a nightmare of darkness, ash, and violence. Alex begins a harrowing trek to seach for his family and finds help in Darla, a travel partner he meets along the way. Together they must find the strength and skills to survive and outlast an epic disaster.

The Yellowstone supervolcano nearly wiped out the human race. Now, almost a year after the eruption, the survivors seem determined to finish the job. Communities wage war on each other, gangs of cannibals roam the countryside, and what little government survived the eruption has collapsed completely. The ham radio has gone silent. Sickness, cold, and starvation are the survivors’ constant companions.

When it becomes apparent that their home is no longer safe and adults are not facing the stark realities, Alex and Darla must create a community that can survive the ongoing disaster, an almost impossible task requiring even more guts and more smarts than ever—and unthinkable sacrifice. If they fail… they, their loved ones, and the few remaining survivors will perish.

This epic finale has the heart of , the action of , and a depth all its own, examining questions of responsibility and bravery, civilization and society, illuminated by the story of an unshakable love that transcends a post-apocalyptic world and even life itself.

November 30th, 1939, the peace of the frigid forests of Karelia Finland is shattered by an invading horde. Numbering four hundred thousand strong, soldiers of the Red Army pour across the borders of the Soviet Union’s small neighbor. Outnumbered and outclassed the world expected Finland to quickly succumb to the Communist juggernaut. Hale grew up farming, and hunting the frozen forest of his northern home. Taught from a young age by his father to hunt and trap, Hale has grown into master woodsman. Not yet twenty summers in age, he is most at home in the wilderness. Utilizing his gifts, especially his uncanny aim with a rifle, he has helped put food on the table and to earn a living by selling valuable pelts. When invasion threatened, he put his growing love for Nea on hold, and answered his nation’s desperate call to stem the Soviet tide. Now alone in Finland’s vast southern forest, he hunts prey of a different kind. Will his skills and the rifle his father gave him be enough against the countless numbers, tanks, and air craft of the Soviet Union?

Muchos no saben que las aguas termales y los géiseres de Yellowstone se deben a un supervolcán, tan grande que su cráter sólo puede ser visto desde un avión o un satélite. Ha entrado en erupción tres veces en los últimos dos millones de años y cuando lo haga de nuevo, la Tierra cambiará para siempre. Cuando Yellowstone estalla, Alex está sólo en casa; sus padres y su hermana se han marchado a visitar a unos familiares. El pueblo donde vive se transforma en una pesadilla: la ceniza volcánica le impide respirar, la comida escasea, y no hay nadie que lo ayude. Decide ir en busca de su familia, pero la gruesa capa de ceniza lo invade todo y difi culta su camino. Un convicto se le une en la travesía, pero fi nalmente lo ataca y lo hiere. Alex teme que su viaje ha acabado, hasta que Darla lo encuentra y le ayuda. Juntos lucharán por lo imposible: sobrevivir al supervolcán.