When Helicity Dunlap flies to Texas to spend time with her best friend Mia, she hopes to leave the tragedies of the devastating tornado and flash flood back in Michiganโat least for a little while. Her responsibilities at Miaโs Aunt Suzeโs beachfront bed and breakfast are pretty simple and leave her lots of time to enjoy hunting for sea glass, sunbathing, and exploring a summer romance.
But Helicity comes by her name honestlyโhelicity means to spinโand her troubles from home follow her south. Her concerns about her older brother Andy intensifyโeven though he shows up to surprise her in Texas.
And if thereโs one place in the world that has weather to rival Michiganโs, itโs Texas. She and her friends go out for a day sail and get caught up in a derechoโa line of intense, widespread, and fast-moving windstorms that once again turn her boatโand lifeโupside down. Sheโll have to face her fears and muster all her strength and knowledge to fight her way out of the nightmare.
Ginger Zee is Good Morning Americaโs chief meteorologist, reporting on the nationโs weather throughout the morning broadcast. Since joining ABC News, Zee has covered almost every major weather event and dozens of historic storms. She broadcasted from the devastated Jersey Shore during Hurricane Sandy, the Colorado floods and wildfires, and covered the wreckage from tornados in Moore and El Reno, Oklahoma. Zeeโs love of adventure does not stop at studying the atmosphere in the center of the storm. She para-hawked in Nepal, para-glided in the Himalayas and the Andes, dove with sharks in the Bahamas, rappelled twenty-seven stories down the exterior facade of the Wit Hotel in Chicago, and has gone ice-boat racing and surfing. She lives in New York City with her husband and son.
Katie Schorr's audiobook credits include narrating the novels in Alyson Noel's bestselling Immortals series โ Evermore, Blue Moon, Shadowland, and Dark Flame. Of her work on the series, AudioFile magazine has said, "Narrator Katie Schorr has a wonderfully raspy, youthful voice, which she puts to good effect on the cast of teenaged characters."Schorrโs one-woman show, Take Me. Seriously., ran for six months at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, and she performs throughout New York in new works at The Ensemble Studio Theater and Ars Nova, among other theaters. She has appeared on VH1's Best Week Ever and co-stars in the web series Head in the Oven with Saturday Night Live actor Bill Hader. She is the co-creator of Yoga Partners: A Web Series.