Book excerpt: It's impossible to mind your own business in an apocalypse. Thieves, pillagers, murderers-these lovely folks used to be your neighbors. At least your best friend gives you an out when he calls from Alaska, asking for help to avenge his wife's murder. Cataclysmic earthquakes have decimated the American West, sending the country into chaos. As the Talbot family seeks refuge in the Rockies amid a rising catastrophe, a desperate SOS from BT uproots their plans for survival to send them on a world-altering quest for revenge, rescue, and the very life of the human race. Because something worse is stirring at the geographic epicenter of the disaster-Devils Desk, Alaska. The quakes have done more than just upend the country. Unaware of the nature of this new threat, the Talbots head into the breach to take on a rift to a dark dimension where a monstrous, boreal race awakens... As the unstoppable enemy masses in the paralyzed West, familiar characters from Talbot's universe converge to form a resistance, but will it be enough to defeat this cataclysmic foe? Find out in book 2 of the brand-new apocalyptic series from the bestselling author of Zombie Fallout and Indian Hill.