The weather isn’t the strangest thing in Guthrie, Kansas. It’s Colette Franklin.

After a lightning strike accident killed her best friend and left her grievously injured, Colette Franklin was granted powers to create severe weather, from rainstorms to tornadoes. Now grown up, and struggling with grief fresh and old, stirring up storms is still what Colette does best. Despite her past, Colette is desperately trying to make peace with her supernatural powers, while she fights for her struggling but beloved farm to the opportunistic town council.

Reid Wyndham, a professor at the University of Guthrie and a seasoned meteorologist, is absolutely fascinated with the storms in Guthrie. The events in town are unheard of and —most importantly— an exciting meteorological opportunity to finish a research paper that would help him win tenure, a boost Reid’s career and reputation desperately needs after a reckless academic scandal involving fabricated evidence.

After Colette reluctantly reveals her powers to Reid, he’s thrilled to help figure out her tricky powers. Reclusive Colette is hesitant to say the least. But Reid is cool, charming and offers knowledge that may be what Colette needs to figure out her powers and to move on from the grief that’s been holding her back from living her life to the fullest—invluding taking care of her farm.

Through a series of experiments devised by Reid, Colette is forced to confront her need for secrecy and the walls guarding her heart. As their chemistry explodes, Colette realizes that maybe her life isn’t only storm wreckage with Reid in it. And when Reid puts his tenure project on the line to help Colette, it hits him that he has to decide what he wants most: to study lightning or to hold it close. When Reid’s project is due and emotions run high, Colette must decide if true love is worth weathering the storm.