Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.

In a future Manhattan devastated by environmental catastrophes and epidemics, sixteen-year-old Lucy survives alone until vicious hounds target her and force her to join Aidan and his band, but soon they learn that she is the target of Sweepers, who kidnap and infect people with plague.

The worst maritime disaster in American history wasn t the Titanic. It was the steamboat Sultana on the Mississippi River and it could have been prevented.

"A remarkable true WWII account of the maritime attack on the RMS Laconia off the West African coast"--