On Shaky Ground

Brilliant friendly and self-confident Dr. Cari Lynn Weiss the daughter of two full professors begins a tenure-track assistant professorship in Geophysics. She is alone for the first time in her life because her fiancé abruptly ended their long-term engagement. She puts all her energy into her computer program to predict earthquakes. A week later she meets Jim DAndrea her graduate student for the summer. Tall well-built Jim the son of the town floozy graduated from the Air ForceAcademy and rose quickly through the ranks until Lt Colonel James Dandy DAndrea was badly injured ejecting from an experimental plane. He needs yet another surgery but doesnt ever plan to be operated on again. Hes just passing time as a graduate student until the inevitable. After a department summer party Cari and Jim end up in bed. Three months later she is shocked to learn she is pregnant. As the earthquakes her method has predicted begin to occur she becomes a tv geophysicist. Six months pregnant and now married to Jim she receives a grant from the USGS to study the rift her method has predicted under the Pacific. To her consternation her OB forbids her to go to sea on the research ship. Jim takes her place and clearly demonstrates his leadership ability.Suddenly her position in the department her relationship with Jim and the earth beneath her are all on shaky ground.