A grumpy recluse who sees the world in data. A vibrant artist who sees it in color. When a storm brings them together, can they survive the forecast?

Novie Fields is a traveler. A painter. A woman who lives her life out of a rust-pocked van, chasing her next mural and leaving nothing but color in her wake. Her plan is simple: arrive in the misty, charming town of Port Blossom, paint the biggest commission of her career, and finally put down some roots. But when her van dies and a freak hailstorm leaves her without a room, her carefully painted optimism begins to crack.

Elias Vance is a fortress. For five years, the disgraced meteorologist has hidden from the world in his cliffside cottage, finding solace not in people, but in the cold, hard facts of barometric pressure and tide charts. His life is an ordered, predictable system designed to prevent the one thing he fears most: chaos. And he has just been asked to let it walk right through his front door.

Forced together by a well-meaning mayor, the two are like a high-pressure system meeting a warm front. Elias sees Novie as a whirlwind of disruption, a statistically significant anomaly that threatens his carefully controlled world. Novie sees Elias as a brooding thundercloud, a man whose monochrome existence is desperately in need of her entire palette.

But beneath the stormy surface, an unexpected connection forms—a shared understanding of what it means to be an outcast, to be haunted by a past you can't outrun. As they challenge each other's view of the world, the tension between them builds into a current as powerful and undeniable as the sea itself.

In a town of charming eccentrics and dramatic coastal weather, can a woman who has never stayed put find a home with a man who refuses to leave? And can a man who trusts only in data learn to forecast a future he never saw coming?

Fans of small-town romance, grumpy/sunshine heroes, and stories of healing and second chances will fall in love with this emotional and heartwarming novel.