One shift. A plant full of hostages. A cover story hiding something worse.
On a routine night at Pelican Point Nuclear Generating Station, a coordinated terrorist team moves through the fence line, the turbine hall, and into the control room before anyone outside the plant understands what is happening.
The men who take the control room do not want to cause a meltdown. They want time, and they want quiet. So the official emergency declaration stays logged at the lowest level of the classification ladder, an Unusual Event, the words that keep the sirens off and the federal cavalry at arm's length while the real operation runs underneath the noise.
This is the story of four people caught inside the deception. A senior operator one year from retirement, who knows every valve and every lie the plant can tell. A grizzled old security supervisor who has spent thirty-nine years at the plant and has seen every kind of trouble a plant can make. A shift supervisor twenty-two years on the job, still trying to keep his hands steady. And a former Army MP working plant security while she fights for her shot at becoming an operator. Before the sun comes up, each of them will have to decide what a plant, a country, and a life are actually worth.
Approx. 98,000 words · Nuclear / techno-thriller · Standalone
