Product Overview
When a middle-school science rivalry leads a boy to tamper with his mentor’s experimental microwave projector, an accidental discovery launches an adventure far beyond anything he imagined. The device produces a seemingly indestructible force field bubble—and soon, that invention is the only thing standing between a small group of young scientists and the molten heart of an active Costa Rican volcano.
Invited to join a volcanologist’s research expedition, the three friends find themselves deep inside a volcanic caldera, protected from thousand-degree lava by a bubble of projected energy running on a finite battery charge. With rising magma, blocked escape routes, and an impending eruption, they must use every ounce of scientific knowledge and raw courage they possess—or be swallowed by the mountain forever.
Packed with real volcanology, warm characters, and laugh-out-loud moments, this is a story about curiosity, responsibility, and what happens when science goes spectacularly, wonderfully wrong.
