Sergeant Phillips' feelings for Sergeant Valente reach critical levels when they both volunteer to be on a disaster relief mission in the midst of one of New York's worst thunderstorms. He's capable, attentive, and crazy attractive but in the aftermath of her own break up, her feelings are a storm that would rival the winds and the rain that have wrecked the city. Valente's hot and cold behavior certainly doesn't help either. Phillips is determined to ignore her heart and quit this game of cat and mouse, but how can she when he looks at her like that?