Now, almost a year after the eruption, the survivors seem determined to finish the job. The Yellowstone supervolcano nearly wiped out the human race. When the unthinkable happens, Alex must find new reserves of strength and determination to survive. But the landscape they cross is even more perilous than before, with life-and-death battles for food and power between the remaining communities. Alex and Darla decide they can wait no longer and must retrace their journey into Iowa to find and bring back Alex’s parents to the tenuous safety of Illinois.

It’s also been six months of waiting for Alex’s parents to return from Iowa. Alex and Darla have been staying with Alex’s relatives, trying to cope with the new reality of the primitive world so vividly portrayed in Ashfall, the first book in this series. It’s been over six months since the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano. Together they must find the strength and skills to survive and outlast an epic disaster. Alex begins a harrowing trek to seach for his family and finds help in Darla, a travel partner he meets along the way. Then the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts, plunging his hometown into a nightmare of darkness, ash, and violence. And by some scientific measurements, it could be overdue for an eruption.įor Alex, being left alone for the weekend means having the freedom to play computer games and hang out with his friends without hassle from his mother. Many visitors to Yellowstone National Park don’t realize that the boiling hot springs and spraying geysers are caused by an underlying supervolcano, so large that the caldera can only be seen by plane or satellite.

Ashen Winter by Mike Mullin