Sixteen-year-old Reed, the leader of a club with a reputation for bucking adult authority, makes a gesture of defiance by taking his friends camping in the Adirondacks, only to find his band collapsing into dissension and violence.

It's June 30th. And in Annex 10, situated in the Adirondack Mountains of New York, scientist Dr. Gray and his team can hardly believe their instrument readings. It's four o'clock, and as the seconds pass, they see that chaos looms for mankind. The Earth is growing hotter, temperatures rocket, as the sun shines through the night and causes endless days. Everyone suffers - the rich, the poor, the criminal and the family man. Will it ever end?

Two ladies go to visit their father, a general, through the dangerous wilderness with their savvy guides, Natty Bumppo and his Mohican friends.

Dutch Pioneers seeking a settlement head north from New York City to Albany and then to the Adirondacks, encountering Revolutionary War battles on the way. First of a trilogy dealing with frontier life and customs in colonial New York.