Ring of Fire, Books 1-4 (A Disaster Thriller) - Bobby Akart

Written by Bobby Akart
Read by Andrew Wehrlen
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Book 1
Duration: 9 hours, 27 minutes, 30 seconds
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File Size: 516.14 MB

Book 2
Duration: 10 hours, 13 minutes, 7 seconds
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File Size: 557.56 MB

Book 3
Duration: 10 hours, 50 minutes, 10 seconds
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File Size: 591.12 MB

Book 4
Duration: 10 hours, 33 minutes, 24 seconds
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File Size: 575.80 MB

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Book 1 Cascadia

Major volcanoes across the Pacific Rim — from Indonesia to the Americas — erupt in quick succession, each more violent than the last. As the earth trembles and cities fall into chaos, the world is plunged into an unprecedented crisis.

It begins at the Cascadia Subduction Zone off America’s Pacific Northwest. Triggered by an undersea volcanic eruption, the Ring of Fire has been awakened by sudden shifts in tectonic pressure setting the stage for a global extinction level event.

Ring of Fire is a natural disaster thriller series from international bestselling author, Bobby Akart, one of America’s favorite storytellers, has delivered up-all-night thrillers to over two million readers in 245 countries and territories worldwide.

The Ring of Fire, the world’s most volatile volcanic system surrounding the Pacific Rim, suddenly becomes unstable. The great tectonic plates that have held the Pacific in a delicate balance for millennia shift with terrifying force, triggering a cascade of catastrophic events.

From Cascadia to Krakatoa to Fuji to Tambora, the fury of nature is unleashed. Lava cascades down the slopes of volcanos. The ash-filled skies darken above, triggering a volcanic winter. The oceans themselves rise in wrath, swallowing coastal cities as tsunamis flow in all directions.

Dr. Duke Mercer, his wife Betsy, and their children Sloan, Graham, Beau, and Reid, together with Duke’s beloved English Bulldog, Winston are celebrating his retirement from the USGS when a phone call comes in. “We need you back.”

Earth has reached its boiling point.

This modern-day, fact-based novel will have you whispering just one more chapter until the end.

©2025 Crown Publishers Inc. (P)2025 Crown Publishers Inc.

Book 2 St. Helens

It began with a rumble beneath the Pacific. It will end with the Earth on Fire.

Mount St. Helens erupts without warning unleashing a VEI 6 explosion of ash, fire, and fury. It cripples the Pacific Northwest, choking cities, burying highways, and raining destruction upon the land. For the Mercer family, the eruption strikes terrifyingly close to home. Their sanctuary becomes a battleground as seismic chaos tears through the Columbia River Gorge.

But St. Helens is only the beginning.

Ring of Fire is a natural disaster thriller series from international bestselling author, Bobby Akart, one of America’s favorite storytellers, who has delivered up-all-night thrillers to over two million listeners in 245 countries and territories worldwide.

From the Pacific Northwest to Japan to the islands of Indonesia, the planet’s deadliest volcanoes are waking. Ancient giants, long dormant, roar back to life in a domino effect triggered by the rare solar cycle known as the Grand Solar Minimum. Around the Pacific Rim, one volcano after another tears through the crust of the Earth. Infrastructure collapses. Communications fail. Governments panic. Countless lives destroyed.

Ash will fall. Power will fail. Oceans will rise. And the chain reaction has only just begun.

The Ring of Fire, the world’s most volatile volcanic system encompassing the Pacific Rim, suddenly becomes unstable. The great tectonic plates have held the Pacific in a delicate balance for millennia shift with terrifying force triggering a cascade of catastrophic events.

As the Ring of Fire explodes, the world must confront a terrifying reality—this isn’t just one eruption. It’s a seismic reckoning. A planet pushed too far. A countdown to extinction.

Will the Earth survive its own fury? Will humanity?

©2025 Crown Publishers Inc. (P)2025 Crown Publishers Inc.

Book 3 Hawaii

After the catastrophic fury of Mount St. Helens and the agonizing eruption of Mount Fuji, Dr. Duke Mercer and his family find themselves regrouping in new environs. Duke and the CVO refugees have a new, desperate mandate to monitor the Pacific Rim’s most volatile volcanic systems, from the enigmatic Axial Seamount to the looming titans off Indonesia.

But the Earth’s fiery heart has a new, terrifying plan.

Duke’s brilliant daughter, Sloan, is handpicked to join elite cadre of volcanologists tasked with averting global disaster. Her new assignment plunges her into the heart of the Pacific—Hawaii’s volcanic islands—where she’s partnered with the handsome, enigmatic seismologist Dr. Kane Barfield. Kane carries a secret, a chilling truth that could not only obliterate Hawaii but plunge the entire planet into an extinction-level event.

As Sloan and the new VDAP team uncover alarming evidence—Mauna Loa and Kilauea’s massive magma chambers are connected, charging, and ready to erupt—a secretive experimental deep-earth drilling operation for volcanic gold threatens to derail their desperate race against time. They must convince a skeptical world of the unprecedented VEI potential of a joint eruption while finding a way to shield the Hawaiian people from an impending catastrophe.

Kane’s terrifying secret, the very reason he was strategically deployed to the idyllic Hawaiian Islands, may hold the singular key to survival. However, for humanity to endure, he must reveal the truth—a truth more devastating than the inferno brewing beneath the Pacific.

This modern-day, fact-based novel will have you whispering just one more chapter until the end.

©2025 Crown Publishers Inc (P)2025 Crown Publishers Inc

Book 4 Axial

The age of ruin has dawned.
A chain reaction of volcanic eruptions.
An inevitable result.
The countdown to extinction has begun.

Dr. Duke Mercer and the battered scientists of CalVO brace themselves, their ranks now bolstered by his daughter, Sloan, fresh from the cataclysmic collapse of Hawaii. As four active Hawaiian volcanoes rage, the Pacific Rim shudders, building to a terrifying crescendo with the awakening of the colossal Axial Seamount and an apocalyptic chain reaction across the Ring of Fire.

One family. Four continents. A world on edge.

“… my pulse is still racing.”

Ring of Fire is a natural disaster thriller series from international bestselling author, Bobby Akart, one of America’s favorite storytellers, who has delivered up-all-night thrillers to over two million readers in 245 countries and territories worldwide.

The Ring of Fire’s fury peaks as the Axial Seamount and volcanic systems across the Pacific Rim surge toward catastrophic eruptions. In Indonesia, Tambora, Toba, and Anak Krakatoa signal imminent disaster, threatening a global cataclysm. Across the globe, the devastating results of Fuji’s eruption and the catastrophic ramifications of the Hawaiian Islands uniting into chaos are revealed.

“Oh My God!”

These are not merely regional disasters.
This is the beginning of the end.

As the world’s most dangerous volcanoes ignite in a symphony of destruction, the Mercer family confronts the ultimate, heartbreaking decision. They must act now, before the Earth’s final, extinction-level event consumes everything. Or die.

The Ring of Fire has come full circle, and its last, devastating act will decide the fate of humanity.

This modern-day, fact-based novel will have you whispering just one more chapter until the end.

©2025 Crown Publishers Inc (P)2025 Crown Publishers Inc

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