Kate Sherman is a brilliant young meteorologist who can't understand how she recently missed predicting three major storms--storms that cut into the profits of her employer, Coriolis Industries. Afraid of being fired, Kate throws herself into an analysis of the strange storms--and headlong into the path of a secret plot that may cost her her life ""Hurricane Simone is a Category 7--the biggest, strongest storm in recorded history--and she's clawing her way up the East Coast. When she hits New York City, skyscrapers will fall. Subways and tunnels will flood. Lower Manhattan and much of Queens and Brooklyn will disappear under more than thirty feet of water. Thousands, if not millions, will die. Created by secret, cutting-edge weather science, Simone is not just an unnatural disaster--she's a weapon. Kate and CIA weatherman Jake Baxter must figure out how to stop the storm before she flattens New York City . . . and identify Simone's master before he has them both killed.