It's the early 21st century, a shift in the Earth's axis has brought about sudden cataclysmic flooding and society has to start all over again. Most of Australia is under water, with survivors scattered in island villages.
Eighteen-year-old Cassandra Marshall is forbidden by her over-protective father to join the village militia that has formed to guard and advance the fledgling society that remains after the Shaking Time. And he may be right, since her best friend has vanished, the scouts are keeping secrets and there are strange tracks in the forest! Cass is determined to know what it all means, but solving this mystery will drag her into the heart of terror, and the new world into war.
