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When tectonic plates shift beneath California, the world turns to Dr. Seokjin Kim-CalTech's brilliant geodynamicist and the calm voice after every quake. But Jin's personal life is far less stable. Years ago, at UCLA, he shared late-night lab sessions and tremor readings with fellow seismologists Jimin Park and Yoongi Min. The trio built careers on the study of the earth's violent beauty-only for Jin's own fault line to form when astrophysicist Jungkook Jeon entered his orbit.
Now Jungkook is back at CalTech on a NASA grant, engaged to a star-chasing astrochemist who despises the past Jin represents. Yet fate-or perhaps seismic irony-reunites them through a precocious six-year-old: Nori Kim, a budding volcanologist with the curiosity of both his fathers and the wit of his uncles. When a mysterious seismic cascade threatens the West Coast, buried emotions begin to surface, shaking more than just the ground beneath them.