Buried beneath Lake Tahoe lies the West Tahoe Fault—a thirty-mile fracture capable of unleashing unimaginable destruction. High above the lake, near the forgotten mines of the Comstock era, a covert silver operation is using explosives in dangerously unstable ground. Whether by greed or design, someone is trying to awaken the mountain. Only Police Chief Ray Santos stands between a ruthless conspiracy and a disaster that could change the Sierra forever.