Seismic: Seismic, #1 – Kobo eBook

Los Angeles is preparing for an earthquake. But the real disaster has already begun.

Cal Rainer knows the city’s underground better than almost anyone. He maintains the forgotten infrastructure that keeps Los Angeles functioning: the flood channels, emergency gates, transit relays, and buried systems designed to protect millions when the ground starts moving.

But when the city’s earthquake warning network begins activating in the wrong order, Cal recognizes something impossible.

There is no earthquake.

Someone is triggering the emergency systems deliberately. Trains are being stopped, tunnels sealed, flood channels redirected, and entire neighborhoods pushed into danger before the first real tremor arrives.

The conspiracy leads to a private disaster contractor with a terrifying plan: sacrifice a densely populated section of Los Angeles, then emerge as the only organization capable of restoring order. The catastrophe will be blamed on nature. The destruction will become a business opportunity.

And Cal’s seventeen-year-old daughter, Iona, is trapped inside the target zone.

Three years after his failure to reach his dying ex-wife in time destroyed his relationship with Iona, Cal faces a night that may give him one final chance to make things right. But reaching her means crossing collapsing tunnels, flooded stations, armed response teams, and a city whose own emergency infrastructure has become a weapon.

With help from people who know the system’s hidden weaknesses, Cal must uncover the conspiracy and stop the engineered disaster before Los Angeles is pushed beyond recovery.

But saving his daughter may require a choice that puts an entire city at risk.

By dawn, Los Angeles will call it an earthquake.

Unless someone exposes the truth first.

SEISMIC is a high-stakes technological disaster thriller about infrastructure sabotage, corporate greed, urban survival, and a father’s desperate fight to save the daughter he cannot afford to lose again.