The millennium's first eclipse of the sun cast a shroud over the Earth. Solar flares have triggered a series of gargantuan natural disasters. Earthquakes and hellfire rock the globe.

The death toll rises at an unimaginable rate. S. on the narrow brink of a nuclear apocalypse.

Now, aboard his oceangoing exploration ship, Deep Fathom, Kirkland is on a desperate mission that is leading him to an earth-shattering discovery miles below the ocean's surface. For devastating secrets and a power an ancient civilization could not contain have been cast out into a modern day -- and they will forever alter a world racing toward its own destruction.