MEGAQUAKE - The Big One

The Cascadia fault has been silent for more than three hundred years. Until today.

At 2:11 on a gray October afternoon, a magnitude 9.1 earthquake tears through the Pacific Northwest. The ground shakes for four and a half minutes. Bridges drop into the Willamette, fuel tanks burn along the river, and Portland comes apart. Twenty-three minutes later, the ocean reaches the Oregon coast.

Former search-and-rescue specialist Daniel Holloway is a hundred miles from his sixteen-year-old daughter when the shaking starts. The last text Tess sent him said don't bother. His reply never went through.

Every highway to the coast is broken, every phone is dead, and help is weeks away. Daniel sets out on foot with a borrowed search dog, an orphaned boy he pulled from a collapsed house, and a bridge inspector who won't turn back. Ahead of them are a poisonous chlorine cloud, armed men at a mountain roadblock, an atmospheric river, and a landslide dam holding back a flood. Every survivor he stops to save costs him hours he doesn't have.

On the coast, Tess survives the waves on a hotel roof. Then she learns that the most dangerous thing in her drowned town may be the wealthy man running the hillside camp. He controls the water, the food, and the insulin a little boy needs to stay alive. He also has a secret about the locked gate where her stepfather died.

The ground has stopped shaking. The nightmare hasn't.

This relentless disaster thriller follows a father, a daughter, and the hundred broken miles between them. MEGAQUAKE: The Big One is for readers who want a survival story that is huge, grounded, and impossible to put down.