Storm Cell

When a veteran investigative reporter is found dead in an ice-coated parking garage, the only way to prove it was murder is to read the weather.

Cleveland's chief meteorologist Brooke Wilder knows the December derecho's minute-by-minute temperature drop better than anyone - she broadcast it live. So when FBI Special Agent Frank Wilder, her estranged husband, asks her to decode the dead man's weather-timestamped surveillance photos, Brooke realizes the flash freeze didn't kill him. It preserved the evidence that someone else did.

As Brooke and Frank follow the money trail from a corrupted renovation project to a powerful name hiding behind Cleveland's cultural renaissance, someone reaches into Brooke's broadcast systems with a chilling message: I'm watching. The same financial network that killed her makeup artist ten months ago has claimed another colleague - and Brooke may be next.

With hurricane-force winds, a killer who uses weather forecasts to plan murder, and a couples therapy session that finally cracks open the wound at the heart of their marriage, Brooke and Frank must navigate the most dangerous storm of all: the truth they've been avoiding since the night she lost their baby and he wasn't there.

Storm Cell is the second novel in the Winterkill: Cleveland Crime Series - a gripping blend of romantic suspense, atmospheric thriller, and emotional reckoning set against the brutal beauty of a Cleveland winter. While it can be enjoyed as a standalone thriller, readers will find deeper resonance following Brooke and Frank's journey from the beginning with The Coldest Valentine (Book 1).

Content warning: Storm Cell contains mature themes including pregnancy loss, grief, addiction recovery, and on-page intimacy. Reader discretion is advised.