High in the Colorado Rockies, where winter storms can kill in minutes, seventeen-year-old Marcus Chen hammered the final nail into what his neighbors called "the dumbest roof in Summit County." The other mountain families had laughed at his bizarre curved design, his strange materials, his "city boy" ideas that made no sense to folks who'd survived these peaks for generations. But Marcus wasn't just any city boy. He was the son of a structural engineer who'd died in a building collapse overseas—a tragedy that taught Marcus everything about what happens when roofs fail under pressure. While his neighbors built the same way their grandfathers had, Marcus quietly incorporated techniques he'd learned from studying disasters around the world. Now Hurricane Helena was bearing down on their isolated valley with unprecedented fury. The weather service was calling it a "thousand-year storm." Already, emergency crews couldn't reach them. Phone lines were down. And one by one, the century-old cabins were succumbing to the relentless assault of wind and ice. But how did a teenager's "stupid" roof design become the difference between survival and catastrophe?
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