A mystery at sea plunges forensic geologists Cassie Oldfield and Walter Shaws into deadly waters. When a boat is found deserted off the California coast, it looks to be a simple fishing accident. But there is nothing ordinary going on here. The geologists track the strange incident to an even stranger project. Someone with toxic skills is at work in this sea. If the lethal project is completed, the outcome will be unstoppable.

A young man disappears in the wilderness of the California mother lode. He leaves behind a gold-flecked rock and a vial of liquid mercury. He is a misfit in the modern world, a throwback to the Gold Rush days. A venture capitalist — whose gold country is Silicon Valley — hires forensic geologists Cassie Oldfield and Walter Shaws to track his missing brother. Following one of the 'lost rivers' of California, Cassie and Walter plunge into the dark history of the legendary lands, into the dark past of the brothers, into a poisonous sibling feud that threatens both lives and the land. And the question then becomes: which brother is on the hunt?

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NO WAY OUT — so says the note in the pocket of the murdered mayor. The volcano beneath her town is seething, and the fate of Mammoth Lakes now rests in the hands of emergency planner Adrian Krom. But Krom has his own agenda. Investigating the case, forensic geologist Cassie Oldfield tracks mineral clues to discover how the mayor died — and what she found. As the volcano moves toward red alert, Cassie races to prevent 'no way out' from becoming a prophecy.

Golden Bot Award (Wired.com) Best Whodunit: Forensic geologists Cassie Oldfield and Walter Shaws embark on a perilous hunt — tracking a terrorist who has stolen radioactive material that is hotter than the desert in August. He threatens to release it in America's most fragile national park, Death Valley. But first he must stop the geologists who are closing in. As the hunt turns dangerous, Cassie and Walter will need grit along with their field skills to survive this case. For they are up against more than pure human malice. The unstable atom-in the hands of an unstable man-is governed by Murphy's Law. Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong. And it does.