Distant Rumbles is a time-travel adventure set in the Reelfoot and New Madrid earthquake region of the central United States. The story takes a young graduate student (Braxton Dodds), who has just received his degree in geophysics, on a harrowing and adventurous trek in time. Jettisoning him into a time-period, where geology and earthquakes are more than likely the last thing on the minds of any of the folks dealing with the woes of post Civil War reconstruction in Missouri. Braxton's goal becomes twofold; warn the people of southern Missouri about the earthquake that is destined to strike...