A Humvee parked in front of his house couldn't mean anything good."After a camping trip with his oldest son, Major Dirk Franklin comes home to find a Humvee parked in front of his house. His wife, Carol, tells him the news channels are talking about a storm on the sun. Moments later he's whisked away to a secret military facility in Portland. There, Major Franklin and others struggle to prepare for the coming collapse of society. As the world sinks into darkness, Franklin fights to save his family and the last threads of civilization.The Storm Rises is the exciting sidequel to Through the Storm, book one of the Solar Storms Saga.