"A wisp of steam, lighly dusted with ash, trickled upward from the northwest crater of Soufriere Hills.  The volcano had officially awakened."

An unlikely chain of events work their way into a plot against the Queen of England: 

.....A wayward satellite ending its life in a dramatic way,

.....A young couple in the satellite's path sailing too close to an angry volcano,

.....Terrorists hiding out in the volcano's Exclusion Zone readying themselves to strike.