Glinna Forester, a young woman with an extraordinary metaphysical gift, finds herself unexpectedly alone in the world when her best friend, Germain mysteriously leaves her after years of companionship. While dealing with her feelings of abandonment she also realizes that she's intensely in love with Germain. His absence is a blow to her heart. She will risk her life to find him in her pursuit to cultivate the true love that she took for granted and ignored for too many years. Set in a time of societal and environmental break down, Glinna is irrevocably linked to Earth's ever changing and, determinedly violent, weather. She finds herself in danger when Earth's only established high tech government captures her to use as a pawn in their treacherous pursuit for mapping out global weather patterns in order to control the masses. Glinna and Germain, two lovers lost in the fatal abyss of power and uncertainty, are desperately trying to find each other so they can finally be together in the way in which they crave: as lovers. They struggle through trials of separation and heartache until they are finally united by unconventional means. Escaping the chains of violence, captivity and starvation, they find a safe haven to start over where they are able to love freely with the hope of a safe existence that neither thought possible, until now.

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