This is my first book by this author and I really enjoyed it. I am always interested in why people live in natural disaster locations and how they respond in an emergency. This book tells you. It is the big quake in Los Angeles and we get to see how the characters react. The relationships in this novel are very believable. I really felt as though I could envision what these characters were living through. This ended up being a very emotional novel and is very well written! This is an A+ for me

Teenage foster kid Beegie and single mom Dessa are both out the night Los Angeles is hit with the earthquake scientists have predicted and feared for decades. The two are total strangers, but the terrifying events of that night bring the two women together as they fight to survive in an apocalyptic world