The cat's finally out of the bag. A coming catastrophe the United States government has been trying desperately to keep secret is now known around the world. The super volcano beneath Yellowstone National Park has gone active. Scientists can't agree when the eruption will occur. Some say within days. Others say several years. Those in the danger zones aren't waiting. Great waves of people begin evacuating. Some have safe places to go, and move in with relatives along the eastern seaboard or in the southern states. Others, with no good place to run, start to panic. They're taken advantage of by unscrupulous bankers, insurers and moving companies. A grand scheme is hatched to develop the Alaskan wilderness. To move the "last frontier," in essence, from the great state of Alaska to the center of the lower forty-eight. It's not the only questionable idea. In light of a pending disaster which promises to destroy a third of the nation, anything and everything is open to discussion. Hannah and Tony are released. There's no longer any reason to hold them. But things can never get back to normal for the couple as long as their son is still missing. As long as they don't know whether he's alive or dead. They're at wit's end. And they get assistance from a most unexpected source.