In this gripping survival epic, John Mercer, a veteran geologist, discovers a terrifying anomaly: the Earth’s magnetic poles aren’t just shifting—they’re accelerating. As the planet’s core hits a catastrophic tipping point, the lithosphere stalls, halting the Earth’s thousand-mile-per-hour rotation. But while the ground stops, the atmosphere and oceans do not.
Follow John and his family as they race to the peaks of the Rocky Mountains to survive the "Great Slosh"—a multi-mile-high tidal surge—and the supersonic winds of a world in transition. This story explores the hauntingly beautiful and brutal "New Earth," a world of eternal twilight where humanity must rebuild in the narrow habitable zone between a frozen night and a scorching sun. It is a tale of geologic cycles, ancient floods, and the enduring resilience of the human spirit.