The Rainier Paradigm

There's trouble afoot in the Pacific Northwest in this dark comedy thriller called The Rainier Paradigm.
It starts with a powerful Deep State secret society, their secret project, and a secret romance.
Somehow Melissa Ross, a University of Washington graduate student falls in love and bed, with a professor with rock star status.
The professor happens to be from none other than the powerful Powell family.
Clayton Powell, the subject of her affections and a lot of mistrust, is the head of a secret project to detonate Mount Rainier.