❝what happened to us?❞ ❝was that a rhetorical question, or what?❞ in which a meteorologist, adaline i. hernandez, discovers that she and her career have been twisted into something more than she expected. ~~~ adaline hernandez is a former storm chaser who left the field after a traumatic encounter with a tornado during her junior year at college. after she spent a few years shuffling between lives in puerto rico and new york city, she settled on living in a decent apartment in the city where she now works for the national weather service. as adaline sits behind a computer, she studies storm patterns remotely, far from the dangers of tornadoes, along with the anxiety and ptsd it gave her. however, adaline's life takes a drastic turn when her old friend who she had a major fallout with, javi rivera, invites her back to the plains of oklahoma to test a groundbreaking, edge-cutting tornado tracking system. this puts adaline in a position where she is forced to be pulled back into the world she had once thought she had left behind. now that she is reunited with the thrills and dangers of storm chasing, she also has a deeper sense of caution and purpose. adaline's return to the field puts her on a collision course with a reckless social media star named tyler owens, who thrives on the thrill of chasing storms. as the team faces increasingly dangerous storms, they must contend with phenomena that pushes past the limits of their expertise and survival insticts. in this story, adaline hernandez must not only confront the destructive forces of nature, but also her own fears and memories from the past that hold her back.